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...their efforts to silence him, Jiang's captors have not mistreated him physically, but it has been a harrowing experience psychologically. Initially, Jiang and his wife were taken to an unknown location in an armored truck and made to walk through what one source describes as "a human corridor" of a hundred guards before being confined to separate rooms. Hua was given copies of China's constitution and the regulations of the P.L.A. and was supervised at all times by at least two people-even when she slept. Jiang was made to repeatedly watch a film explaining the Party...
...quite like the idea of building an institutional corridor between economics and history,” Ferguson says. “We really are just saying, ‘let’s...see if we can get any traffic across the river in terms of contact between the faculty...
...members of Easy Company live in an abandoned administrative building that consists of 10 rooms. One is the "lounge," home to the ammunition and the commanding officer. In the other rooms, on both sides of the 5-ft.-wide corridor, and even in the bathrooms, men sleep in their clothes, with their weapons, for as long as and whenever they can. There is no electricity, sanitation or water; ready-to-eat meals and 300 gal. of drinking water are brought in daily from the Marines' headquarters at Camp Fallujah, a dangerous 40-min. drive away...
...Kang-sheng)?perhaps she's in love with him, or maybe he just forgot to return her Jay Chou CD. Narrative details aren't Tsai's concern; he wants to make the audience work for their cinematic enrichment. Tsai trusts in his images?Chen limping down a lonely corridor, the cavernous theater filled with little more than smoke?to evoke the fading experience of moviegoing in an age of pirated DVDs and PlayStations...
...proposals and award grants. So far, the idea is paying off, drawing dollars into community initiatives while priming young professionals for big-bucks giving down the line. Members often prefer start-up projects or edgy endeavors--as in Greensboro, N.C., where they funded gay bingo and a wireless-access corridor. Some groups even include networking (and romancing) amid the altruism--a decent return on a worthy investment. --By Esther Chapman