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12 Jun 2018, 7:20 am
Consider, for instance, the victims of three of the biggest mass murders in all of human history: Mao Zedong's terror famine, which killed a record 45 million people, Stalin's famines and Gulags, and the "killing fields" of Cambodia. [read post]
6 Aug 2010, 4:37 am
As a small example, Law.Gov workshop participants included: Preeta Bansal, General Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor to the Office of Management and Budget Debra Bowen, California Secretary of State David Mao, the Deputy Law Librarian of Congress, Vivek Kundra, The White House Chief Information Officer Ray Mosley, Director of the Office of the Federal Register Beth Noveck, Deputy Chief Technology Officer for The White House Laurence Tribe, Senior Counselor for Access to Justice from… [read post]
11 Apr 2017, 1:01 am
The defeat of the American-sponsored Nationalist army of Chiang Kai Shek by the Communist army of Mao Tse Tung hardened American attitudes and exacerbated fears about the Communists. [read post]
9 Feb 2010, 7:28 am
., Shanghai-based blogger Follow: @djodcouk Paul Denlinger, ex-VP at Chinadotcom and founder of China Business Strategy, which advises internet startups Follow: @pdenlinger David Feng, founder of Civitology, a network of mass transit-based China city sites Follow: @DavidFeng Andrew Galbraith, deputy editor, China Economic Review in Shanghai Follow: @apgalbraith Jeremy Goldkorn, founder and editor In Chief of Danwei.org in Beijing Follow: @goldkorn Dan Harris, China law blogger Follow:… [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 11:38 am
Check out the Law Librarian, David Mao, talk about the project in his testimony before the Committee on House Administration last week (at 1:30:47 in the video). [read post]
4 Jan 2023, 6:00 am
Check out these National Historic Places we’ve previously covered on this blog: Jennifer González, Magna Carta Connection in Historic Jamestown – Pic of the Week Margaret Wood, The History of the Library of Congress James Madison Memorial Building Robert Brammer, Clark County Courthouse, Kentucky – Pic of the Week Jenny Gesley, Albemarle Circuit Court in Charlottesville, VA – Pic of the Week Jenny Gesley, Four Corners of Law, Charleston, SC – Pic of the Week… [read post]
29 Apr 2012, 8:59 pm
-> RT @niubi: Dan Mintz Interview @ Bloomberg West about how to crack into China film market. http://t.co/kETTP1NN -> WSJ: Coming of Age In Mao's China – book review http://t.co/Iwr1GzTZ -> Deadline: Film Exec: Hollywood-China Gatekeeper http://t.co/lqmqxzqE re: SEC investigation of US studios -> WSJ: China Likely to Pressure Cotton Prices http://t.co/npXMARyy -> MarketWatch: China outbound investment up 32%/year in 2004-2011 http://t.co/Exk5Oj9e -> NYT: Making… [read post]
6 Mar 2011, 3:12 pm
Enlightened dictators can accomplish a lot for their economies, but misguided ones can cause disasters-as in China’s “Great Leap Forward” under Mao. [read post]
6 Nov 2014, 12:36 pm
Billington, Librarian of Congress, and David Mao, the Law Librarian of Congress and others participate in the opening ceremony for Magna Carta: Muse and Mentor at the Library of Congress, Thursday, November 6, 2014. [read post]
15 Jan 2009, 10:39 pm
” “As long as I’m here, adherents of Mao’s Little Red Book need not apply,” he wrote in one e-mail message. [read post]
20 Aug 2008, 5:47 pm
Perhaps a future episode would be to go back to Rolla and see how the town was leveraging its strong Engineering University capabilities to retrain its people 2) Disc 2: From MAO-ism to ME-ism Dinner theaters remembering the days of the cultural revolution, gays in China, prostitutes and KTVs, design and architecture, and even religion are covered in this episode.. and while this episode tied some of the people from the first clip to the second, and drew further ties in… [read post]
1 Dec 2016, 5:00 am
Supporting Recovery Mao Pen, an industrial seamstress at Seattle Tarp, is one example of those helped by the Stay at Work Program. [read post]
15 Aug 2012, 7:57 am
They were Vice President Liu Huanming, Vice President Mao Dehe, Vice President Wang Nianqiang, Vice President Yang Longzhong, Vice President Zhang Jintao, and company supervisor Zhang Huibin, the Shenzhen exchange data show. [read post]
17 May 2017, 6:59 am
UHG is the nation’s largest Medicare Advantage Organization (MAO), with more than 50 Medicare Advantage and Drug Prescription plans providing healthcare services and prescription drug benefits to millions of Medicare beneficiaries throughout the United States. receives a monthly payment from Medicare for each beneficiary that is based, in significant part, on the health status of the beneficiary. [read post]
5 Jul 2007, 11:33 am
The dominant language in Addis is Amharic, but any attempt to promote a national language--as Mao did by mandating Mandarin education in primary school in China--is apparently fraught with political peril. [read post]
9 Mar 2012, 12:14 pm
The dramatic story is filled with exposés of corporate scientists influencing policy, government suppression of information, revelations of illegal GE contamination of rice noodles and baby food, consumer outrage, celebrity support (Mao Zedong’s daughter), a “media frenzy” and finally, in September 2011 a victory: the Ministry of Agriculture’s decision to suspend the commercialization of GE rice for the next 5-10 years. [read post]
27 Oct 2010, 11:07 am
with the merely liberal populism of Bruce Springsteen is still available online: Two new albums highlight the competing histories of rock ____________________________________ [1] The band’s name actually came from the Gang of Four Communist Party of China officials who were responsible for some of the worst excesses of Mao Zedong’s cultural revolution. [read post]
15 Oct 2007, 11:32 am
What I found interesting was that 4 of top 10 were in real estate, #1 and #2 are both females (Mao was wrong… women hold up more than half the sky), and China is now #2 behind the US for overall number of billionaires. 10 survival tips for Foreign expats who work in China Trying to sum up how to succeed in China (in 100 words or less) gets harder with each day. [read post]
30 May 2012, 3:58 am
The most popular names cited in blogs by men included Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-shek, Karl Marx and historical figures such as Confucius and Cao Cao, all of which are related to politics or the military, the report indicated. [read post]
25 Dec 2011, 10:01 pm
One need not look very far for the reasons for the failure of the formerly communist regimes: 1) Without free markets, such regimes failed to produce a minimally adequate standard of living for their inhabitants, often by a very wide margin (as during the famines induced by collectivization under Lenin and Mao); 2) Such regimes did not honor their own egalitarian ideals, providing comfortable lives for party apparatchiks while the great mass of the people endured severe hardship; and 3)… [read post]
