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...Objectvely, the student demonstrators are good for reformers in the Party because the reformers can say, `Look. If we don't do more about political reform, the students and the general public will resist our administration. They will reject cooperation with the government," says Ding Xuelian, a sociology graduate student who was a Red Guard during China's decade-long Cultural Revolution...
...Ding says he is not surprised by the eruption of student protest at this time. According to him, the current political climate is ideal for students to voice demands...
...first time in the current wave of protests that the authorities had arrested students. Reaction from their campus compatriots was not long in coming. Thursday evening, some 3,000 students gathered in front of the home of Peking University President Ding Shisun, demanding that he intercede on behalf of the detainees, who they claimed were 24 in number. Speaking through a megaphone, Ding promised to seek their release. But the crowd was in no mood to disperse, despite subzero temperatures and a fresh two-inch snowfall. Instead, it picked up additional demonstrators in a march through the campus and from...
...common experience. The plane levels and the NO SMOKING sign flicks off with a gentle ding. Simultaneously an entire section of nervous flyers light up. The cloud of smoke drifts around the cabin and is then circulated again and again through the ventilation system. Last week the National Research Council offered the nonsmoking majority some relief. After an 18- month study for the Federal Aviation Administration, the council recommended a federal ban on smoking on all domestic airline flights. The report offered no solid proof that smoke in airplane cabins is a genuine health hazard to nonsmokers...
...character. "He says that Susanna has a ready laugh, which tells worlds about her. She can laugh in the face of one complicated situation after another," she notes. But more significant clues are to be found in the music. "Even the music laughs," she says. "When she sings, 'Ding, ding,' in her duet with Figaro, the orchestra goes, 'diddle, diddle, diddle dum,' which it doesn't do when Figaro sings the same phrase. To me that's the orchestra laughing...