Word: callings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wuer's message was an emotional call to arms to Chinese dissidents. "Those of us who remain alive, our lives are no longer our own . . . We have to be responsible in our struggle for democracy and for science. We have to be responsible to the martyrs." Wuer said there were many that night. "Simply put," he continued, "on June 4, the darkest day of the republic, China went sick." He said he saw "many comrades and compatriots" killed and beaten by "bestial, fascist troops" or "crushed to death and flattened out by tanks." In a separate statement, he likened...
...some cases, you and your roommate will have what divorce courts call "irreconcilable differences," a euphemism for "I hate you--DIE!" In some cases, you will plot to kill, or at least maim, the person who has been inflicted on you. In some of those cases, rare though they may be, you will succeed...
...academic load grew, Mike phantomed more and more frequently. After the night Mike and Ben, the nut from Santa Monica across the hall, decided they were going to run around the Yard dressed only in shaving cream and shorts, we initiated a Phantom Watch. People would call on Friday nights: "Is he doing it? Can we come over...
...courage and sacrifice of the young Chinese students who champion the very values Ms. Bhutto so passionately pleaded for. While such a glaring omission could be viewed as political expedience designed not to offend current Chinese leadership, such discretionary judgement seriously diminishes the moral imperative of her call to fight for the preservation and spread of democracy and liberty...
...department is Adams University Professor Bernard Bailyn, author of The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. He doesn't teach many courses any more and has developed a reputation for deliberately ignoring undergraduates. Bailyn is nicknamed "Bud," but no one dares call him that...