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...Beckett said that the students were following police instructions to disperse when they were detained...
...four Harvard students—Jordan Bar Am ’04, Anne G. Beckett ’04, Rachel S. Bloomekatz ’04 and Madeleine S. Elfenbein ’04—were themselves jailed while protesting the arrest of 150 other demonstrators on Thursday...
...Rachel, Maddy [Elfenbein] and I walked in the direction they told us to go,” Beckett said. “I still thought at that point, we’re just going to get out of here...
...Beckett said none of the Harvard students had hoped to get arrested, although they supported the protesters’ cause...
...keep his family fed and together?an eerily prescient scenario that evokes the recent real-life traumas in Henan province, where hundreds of thousands of peasants may have contracted HIV by selling their blood. Though Chronicle is at heart more hopeful than To Live, which sometimes reads like Chinese Beckett, the tragic necessity of sacrifice is never absent. The book's translator, Andrew Jones, compares its informal structure to traditional Chinese opera?but instead of the public celebration of life experienced in such art, Yu depicts a community that is forced by perverse Maoist mandates to revel in the destruction...