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...country from the xenophobia and brutality of Mao's flawed experiment with collectivism. But by amassing the power required for such a prodigious turn of the helm, he foreclosed debate on crucial issues like political reform and institutional change. Left unresolved in his lifetime, those questions will now be thrown open in a way that threatens to loosen China's moorings. The country's stability, at least in the short term, may depend upon finding a new strongman, one who can offer a gravitational center while the nation struggles with the questions Deng never resolved...
Good to hear, since Vermont will certainly not be the last harsh crowd Tracy will face this year. But face it, Crimson fans: the gauntlet has been thrown down...
...very happy that it's being addressed," said David B. Axelrad, a sixth grade teacher in the Belmont district. "We just wanted the Harvard community to know that Harvard University's name was being thrown around...
...been a less abusive word than "bitch," Newt Gingrich might not have been thrown off-message on the biggest day of his political life. Long after the debate is over about whether Connie Chung should have broadcast Kathleen Gingrich's recollection of what her son thought of the First Lady, the epithet of choice against uppity women will hang in the air, a reminder that women have not come such a long way. Like the word penis (before one was cut off), bitch (before the Speaker's mother used it) seldom found its way onto the nightly news...
Royds isn't rushing out with buy orders the way Ramos is, however. Her view is that Mexican stocks may be cheap but that at the moment there's no way to tell. The peso crisis has thrown all the best-laid economic forecasts out the window, so the educated guesses on next year's growth rate, inflation rate and interest rates have become wild guesses. So much is up in the air, in fact, that it's impossible to make predictions about corporate earnings, and as everybody knows, if earnings are a mystery, you can't possibly say whether...