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...complex will include a 300 room hotel 86 luxury condominiums with 40,000 square feet of shops about the size of the Galeria Mall on Kennedy St. and 115,000 square feet of office space clustered around a central courtyard...
When Alexandra was a few months old and they were living in North House, he remembers, a students saw Jessica wheeling the baby in the courtyard and pinned a note to her, offering to baby sit. "She turned out to be not just a babysitter but a good friend," he says...
...through the chest. There were at least three others. Not that night, or the next day, but a little later, after the terror ebbed and the grief could be managed, Lennon's wife, Yoko Ono, took their five-year-old son Sean to the spot in the apartment courtyard where she had seen his father murdered. She had already shown Sean a newspaper with his father's picture on the front page. She tried to do what everyone else has done since that Monday night. She tried to explain...
First station: the home of Mao Tse-tung, where he made his headquarters in January 1937, preparing to fight the Japanese as ally of Chiang Kaishek. The shrine sits in a dusty courtyard, now gardened and grown with new pines. Here was his bed, says the guide, here the two blue enamel boxes in which he carried his records on the Long March; here is the charcoal pan at which, one day while he was writing, he was so absorbed his sandals began to burn. Next door is another little house, once shared by Chu Teh (with wife) and Chou...
...some shamefacedly, some still burning with indignation at how the country was driven to chaos. There is a onetime Red Guard still horrified by a single memory. He was at high school in Peking and was awakened one night. A "struggle" meeting was going on in the school courtyard, the Red Guards struggling against two teachers and beating them. He crept down to the courtyard at 5 a.m. and there lay the bodies of the two teachers, beaten to pulp, dead. Another onetime student recalls: "My brother was at Peking University; he was beaten to death; then my mother committed...