Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some say it was all because of bad food in the dining halls...
...Shibao, a graduate student in inorganic chemistry who came to Harvard in 1983, sympathizes with his fellow students in China. "All the [Chinese] newspapers talk about is that the students are bad. Nothing is good here," he says, referring to the People's Daily Overseas Edition, the Party paper to which he subscribes. "To them it is just fighting police, disorder in the streets. These newspapers are full of news that isn't real news...
...life is terrible in the universities," says Yu, who attended Fudan University, one of the flashpoints of student unrest. "The food is very bad, we have no money, and we are expected to work very hard. I read an article that said students lack exercise, that they are in poor health because they don't exercise. That's not true. It's nutrition. Student health is not good because they are not well-nourished...
Zhang, however, has a different idea about the students. "Young people are for idealism," he says. "Some people might think it's naivete and lack of sophistication, but that's not a bad thing. They are full of enthusiasm for China--for a democratic and economically developed China...
...collective reawakening of memory has had its perverse offshoots. One way of rationalizing a war we lost is to assume we should have won it, but the damned bureaucrats/politicians/military brass kept us from finishing it off. John Rambo, unhindered American fighting man, could have won it. If the bad guys...