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...come to this: the hatred between Iraq's warring sects is now so toxic, it contaminates even the memory of a shining moment of goodwill. On Aug. 31, 2005, a stampede among Shi'ite pilgrims on a bridge over the Tigris River in Baghdad led to hundreds jumping into the water in panic. Several young men in Adhamiya, the Sunni neighborhood on the eastern bank, dived in to help. One of them, Othman al-Obeidi, 25, rescued six people before his limbs gave out from exhaustion and he himself drowned. Nearly 1,000 pilgrims died that afternoon, but community leaders...
...lunch and dinner to show our revolutionary zeal. Actually everyone was hungry, but nobody wanted to be the first to leave.'' ''What did you write about?'' ''Oh, slogans and denunciations against all China's enemies -- Taiwan, Japan, Britain, the U. S. and the Soviet Union.'' On the night of Aug. 18, my daughter's 23rd birthday, I invited Li Zhen, a woman professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, to dinner. Things were bad there, she told me. ''All classes have stopped. Everybody has to write Big Character Posters. Do you know, one of my students told me quietly that...
...confess her ''love for Western music.'' She was found dead the next day, seated by her piano, with the gas turned on. The note she left said, ''I did my best for my students.'' The day after Li Zhen's visit, I read in the newspaper that on Aug. 18 Mao had reviewed the first contingent of Red Guards in Peking and given them his blessing. In the days afterward, the Red Guards in Shanghai took over the streets. They debated whether to reverse the system of traffic lights, as they thought red should mean ''go'' and not ''stop.'' Meanwhile...
...evening of Aug. 30, while my daughter was attending a political meeting at her film studio, I was sitting alone in my study reading William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, which had come from a London bookshop with which I had an account. The house was very quiet. There was not the slightest sound or movement anywhere, almost as if everything in the house were waiting helplessly for its own destruction. Suddenly the doorbell began to ring incessantly. At the same time, there was a furious pounding of many fists on my front gate, accompanied...
...adult and embryonic cell together to form a new hybrid cell with the characteristics of an embryonic stem cell. The DPC report claims that this research justifies President George W. Bush’s current stem cell policy that denies federal funding to researchers using embryonic cells derived after Aug. 9, 2001, because this method could potentially create many embryonic stem cells without destroying additional human embryos. Representatives at the White House did not respond to repeated requests for comment. However, the scientists’ disagree that their research supports Bush’s policy to limit the creation...