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...victim of dark forces. He had long maintained that other officials in Heilongjiang had set him up after he discovered their connection to the bomb-shelter debacle. In a 34-page letter to the court, he described being chained to a hook on the cement floor of a prison basement as interrogators beat him into confessing. "If you die here," he quoted one saying, "your family won't even get your ashes." The official who oversaw the investigation, he went on, was one of those he had discovered taking bribes...
...sharp lines and warm velvet. Chen herself is a fixture most afternoons and evenings: you'll find her perched on the same barstool and invariably tapping away at a laptop, perhaps creating a new menu, or organizing another poetry jam, cheap Belgian-beer night, free movie screening in the basement cinema or appearances by guest speakers in the fields of design, interiors, graphics and publishing...
...course, he's from Minnesota. Whatever your comfort zone, don't forget that there is always an alternative: just go indoors to exercise at a mall, at a gym or in your basement. Remember, spring is only nine weeks away...
...will likely not prove fruitful. At the start of next semester, however, those prayers for 60 more minutes may finally be answered. With a long-overdue improvement in the system for ordering coursepacks launching at the start of the spring term, the science-center-basement burden of long lines and return trips will be a thing of the past...
...recent decades, the chute has been replaced by building-wide servers which electronically transmit articles from reporters in the newsroom to designers in the basement...