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Nine years after the June 4 incident, moreover, it's unclear how much the agitators for democracy actually achieved. Li Peng, who oversaw the crackdown on them, is still near the top of China's hierarchy. Jiang, who proved his colors by coming down hard on demonstrators in Shanghai, is now the country's President. And on a bright winter morning, Tiananmen Square is still filled, as it was then, with bird-faced kites and peasants from the countryside lining up to have their photos taken amid the monuments...
...straight people mingled socially as well as professionally, and there was a line dividing the on-screen persona of an actor from his private life. But with the advent of sound and the conservative reactionism of the 1930s which accompanied the start of the Great Depression, a crackdown ensued on both the content of the films and the private lives of their stars...
Giuliani was already three days into a meltdown in which he'd snapped at, among others, a columnist who claimed that he clocked Giuliani speeding in his GMC Suburban shortly after the mayor vowed a crackdown on scofflaw motorists as well as jaywalkers, and promised--read closely here--the creation of a more polite New York City...
...article, "Law School Reacts to Truancy Crackdown" (News, Feb. 11), The Crimson erred in reporting that the members of the Legal Education Committee "voted last Friday in favor of a new, mandatory class attendance policy at the Law School." In fact, we voted on no such thing...
What more appropriate motivation can there be for this crackdown than the recent underage drinking deaths and the constant rise of under-age alcohol consumption? To describe Scott Krueger's death as a result of unsafe party and fraternity environments rather than underage alcohol abuse suggests that the writers spend more time writing editorials than they do researching facts...