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Fang now must ponder China's plan to develop modern technology. This, as expressed by his Academy of Sciences predecessor, Kuo Mojo, will be "a magnumopus" which will "not be written on limited reams of paper but in the universe that knows no bounds...
Just 14 weeks into his reign, John Paul II might have been tempted to avoid this Latin American entanglement, as his short-lived predecessor had planned to do. But a leader with his vigorous makeup could hardly resist the challenge. "The Pope is coming to save the church. It's as simple as that," says a Mexican church analyst. Catholicism's future depends greatly on this region's believers, many of them "baptized but not yet sufficiently evangelized," as a bishop in Peru puts it. Religious education is often scant. Says a Vatican specialist, "In Latin America...
Dukakis announced last week that--just as his predecessor, Francis W. Sargent, had done--he will teach at the Kennedy School of Government for the next two-and-a-half years...
Unlike its predecessor, the new report contains no previously unpublished data. Instead, its 1,200 pages summarize some 30,000 research papers issued over the past 15 years. Among the major findings...
...Dukakis comes to Harvard he would follow in the steps of his predecessor, former governor Francis W. Sargent. Sargent taught a seminar at the Institute of Politics following his defeat by Dukakis in the 1974 general election...