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...blistering cross-tailwind that whipped some lanes into course-record speed simply didn’t reach us; several crews we had beaten earlier in the year, and one we had beaten earlier in the day, flew by us like we were stuck in reverse. We finally crossed the line in fifth place. By all accounts, a crushing disappointment...
...that took place some 40 km from the family's two-room farmhouse in the windswept hills outside the town of Chengde. Zhu, who sold vegetables in a nearby market, had gotten into a fight the previous day with other vendors while jostling for a prime spot; he was beaten repeatedly with an iron bar. "He was badly injured and the doctor gave him medicines and told him to rest," Yang says. "We have the prescriptions to prove it all, but the judge refused to listen...
...inciting public disorder last year after he exposed the forced sterilization of women as part of a provincial family-planning campaign, is one example regularly cited by activists. New York-based Human Rights Watch and others say they have recorded numerous instances of individuals who protested court decisions being beaten, tortured, imprisoned and even killed as local officials sought to bury controversial or embarrassing cases...
Eventually Mohammed, 24, wound up in a cell at Abu Ghraib, where he was beaten for hiding a pack of cigarettes. A woman soldier that he recalled as "so beautiful" pushed his arms through the bars of the cell and cuffed them so tightly he couldn't move. Then, he says, she poked his eye with her finger so hard he couldn't see afterward. Three months after the incident, Mohammed's left eye was gray and glassy, allowing only modest vision of blurry shapes. He says the guards at Abu Ghraib drank whisky and walked the halls with cans...
Mental Health Services tends to disagree with our self-diagnosis and self-medication, but there are only so many ways to make it through a school like Harvard. We crawl out of here beaten, stripped of our clothes, whipped, and heavy with severe messianic delusions, but we know that we have a degree and the knowledge that at least a portion of the class of 2007 is worth a damn...