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BEIJING Y-3's unisex Honja ($270) may not be the most technologically advanced shoe on the market, but both men and women dig its simple design

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The A List: Sneakers | 2/27/2007 | See Source »

...gets a lot of sets in the games because he can set on the right side and the left. Now that we have Gil, if I were to go down [with an injury], we don’t miss a beat. If I go down for a dig and if I can’t set a ball on the second touch, he can set a perfect touch.”In addition to giving Harvard an edge during games, Weintraub’s role on the team also changes the way practices are run. Not only does Weintraub?...

Author: By Courtney D. Skinner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Versatile Frosh Gives Harvard Options, Energy | 2/13/2007 | See Source »

...chairs and sofas, removed tiles from the walls of the bathrooms, poked in the fireplace and the chimney, lifted floorboards, climbed onto the roof, fished in the water tank under the ceiling and crawled under the floor. Darkness had long descended on the city when they decided to dig up the garden. They switched on the terrace lights and started digging. The damp, ash-covered lawn was trampled into a sea of mud; all the flower beds were dug up, and spades were sunk into the earth around the shrubs. They even pulled plants out of their pots. But they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life and Death in Shanghai | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

...face an interrogator again. But to study Mao's books for many hours a day was a depressing occupation for me, his victim. I turned instead to the Tang dynasty poetry I had learned as a schoolgirl. It really amazed me that I was able to dig out from the deep recesses of my brain verses that had lain dormant for decades. Whenever I managed to piece together a whole poem, I felt a sense of happy accomplishment. My persistent efforts to maintain sanity had a measure of success. But there were still moments when I was so burdened with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life and Death in Shanghai | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

...allowed to refer to a traitor as 'chairman'!'' they all shouted. When they quieted down, I said, ''I wonder if the material on which the Central Committee based its judgment was reliable. You know how easily people can be frightened into making false confessions.'' I couldn't resist this dig. I was sure they at least suspected that the case against Liu was manufactured. (After Mao's death an official Central Committee document described how activists selected by Jiang Qing and Lin Biao tortured Liu's associates to make them provide false evidence.) In the spring of 1969, after nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life and Death in Shanghai | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

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