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...sought to rebuild China on some kind of Confucian mold. He rejected both of his youthful affectations: Westernization and Buddhism. The rest of Liang's career was spent attempting to build a state based on a Confucian value system that would prescribe a "Chinese" core for any institutional setup. As part of the non-Communist opposition to Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist regime, Liang helped form the rural reconstruction movement that sought to create a new China on the backs of a liberated and mobilized peasantry. After the Communist victory in 1949, Liang's Confucian orientation towards rural reform became...
...think when you look at the basic setup of the committee (with four Faculty members and four students) it is inherent in that structure that students and faculty will have interests that are different," McDonough said...
...Abscam did introduce a new controversy. Had the much-criticized FBI illegally or unethically enticed the lawmakers into committing crimes they would normally not have considered? "This smacks of a setup," claimed one leading Democrat in Congress. "A lot of guys feel that the FBI has got it in for this place." But why? No legislator could quite explain this "gut feeling" that, as another Congressman contended...
Still, there is room for improvement without junking the present setup. For one thing, the process is too long. Great Britain's national election is disposed of in a mere three weeks. In the U.S., caucuses and primaries now stretch from January to June of election year and could be compressed. Democratic Congressman Morris Udall, who ran unsuccessfully in 1976, suggests limiting the contests to four dates: the first Tuesday of each month from March to June. "This would provide a smorgasbord of elections around the country instead of these overblown single primaries," he explains...
...model, introduced in 1977 as the first programmable personal computer that could be bought fully assembled rather than in kit form. This year 100,000 Apple Us will be sold, vs 25,000 in 1978. Prices: from $1,195 for the basic model to $3,000 for a setup with all the trimmings, such as two ''floppy'' discs, a graphics tablet and a printer. Exults Apple's cofounder, Steven Jobs, a self-made engineer who is all of 23: ''We will sell more computers this year than IBM has in five...