Word: ams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"I was standing on the corner of Widener wondering, 'What am I doing here now that everything's started?'" he says.
"By the time one teaches such a course, one has learned most of the basic arguments about world politics," Moravcsik added. "Steve regularly surprises me. I am never quite sure what he is going to say."
"[I thought to myself], I was just in Vietnam ayear and a half ago, and here I am over hereserving the city now as I served the governmentthen, and people here were against it," he says.
But still, his family (or part of it) was there, and the look of the town and its people delighted the great realist. He wrote to James Tissot, a fellow painter, enthusiastically about "villas with columns in different styles...negroes in old clothes...rosy white children in black arms, charabancs...
For many correspondents who lived in China at the time, Beijing is still a city of ghosts. When I am in the center of the city, I'm haunted by images of a dead soldier, his body burned by an angry mob and strung up from a footbridge. Am I...