China threw open the gates of its secretive Central Party School on Wednesday, offering foreign journalists a rare but carefully scripted peek at the leafy campus where the country's Communist elite are trained.

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Communist Party opens door to secretive school

By Alkesh Sharma, Zirakpur, March 19 : Marx, Lenin and Che are certainly alive and kicking if one is to go by the accessories, posters, books and magazines on Communist ideology that have suddenly flooded this town, 10 km from Chandigarh..

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Communism digs in, with much memorabilia, in Punjab town (New Kerala)

Chimen Abramsky, who has died aged 93, was a Jewish intellectual, historian, book collector and bibliographer of world renown. Although he wrote many academic papers, he published few books. Yet his academic legacy was huge.

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Chimen Abramsky obituary (Guardian Unlimited)

BEIJING -- A high-profile Chinese lawyer demanded on Wednesday that the government open its books to the public in an unusually direct display of the legal activism that the Communist Party sees as a growing threat to its rule.

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Chinese lawyer makes bold demand for open government (Chinapost.com.tw)