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Additionally, MIT decided not to support Phi Gamma Delta--known as Fiji--in its bid to regain its dormitory license from the Boston Licensing Board, which convinced the house's owners not to even apply for a license...
...skyscrapers of Shanghai, produced encounters with scores of Chinese obsessed and driven by the desire to improve their lives. Farmers, boat captains, teachers, gangsters, businessmen who work the river and engineers who seek to harness it--all want to share in the new Chinese dream, to become wealthy and regain the self-respect that China lost to colonial powers centuries ago. Political change lags behind, but if few people are ready to defy the one-party system, sneaking admiration for the freedoms Americans enjoy is more widespread than party leaders imagine. In an effort to remove the dead economic hand...
...early hours of Saturday morning, few Indonesians thought Habibie would be more than a brief tenant of the presidential office. "I don't see Habibie enjoying meaningful political support from anyone," said Sarwono Kusumaatmadja, a former Minister of Environment. "In the economic crisis we lost trust. We have to regain trust, and Habibie is not the man for that." Indonesia's transition out of the Suharto era into a modern, free-market democracy has, with his departure, just barely begun...
...graduating only because he and another West Point cadet have figured out how to get away with marriage. Against U.S. Military Academy regulation they married; then they had a child, unmarried in order to graduate from the academy and, with commencement in sight, are apparently prepared to remarry and regain custody of the baby...
Then F.D.R. appeared, a magnificent, serene, exhilarating personality, buoyantly embodying new ideas, new courage, new confidence in America's ability to regain control over its future. His New Deal swiftly introduced measures for social protection, regulation and control. Laissez-faire ideologues and Roosevelt haters cried that he was putting the country on the road to communism, the only alternative permitted by the either/or creed. But Roosevelt understood that Social Security, unemployment compensation, public works, securities regulation, rural electrification, farm price supports, reciprocal-trade agreements, minimum wages and maximum hours, guarantees of collective bargaining and all the rest were saving capitalism...