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...CLOSED. BINGDIAN, a weekly supplement to the state-run China Youth Daily newspaper; in Beijing. The popular four-page section, known for its aggressive reporting on official corruption and inequality, was apparently shut down after running an essay questioning interpretations of national history taught in Chinese schools. Bingdian editor Li Datong wrote a widely distributed letter criticizing the closure, claiming it "seriously violated and trampled upon the [Communist] Party's constitution and political standards," and pledged to file an appeal with the government...
...Native American writer, born fragile and poor on a destitute Indian reservation, published an essay, "The Blood Runs like a River Through My Dreams," in Esquire. It earned a National Magazine Award nomination and was later expanded into a memoir of the same title that became a finalist for a PEN/Martha Albrand Award. That rez-to-riches tale of courage and redemption sounds like a Horatio Alger story, doesn't it? It should be a movie. Or at least an episode of A&E's Biography. Of course, I'm biased, because, well, it's my story. Kind...
...course, after reading Nasdijj's essay and book, I suspected that he was a literary thief and a liar. As a Native American writer and multiculturalist, I worried that Nasdijj was a talented and angry white man who was writing as a Native American in order to mock multicultural literature. I imagined that he would eventually reveal himself as a hoaxer and shout, "You see, people, there is nothing real or authentic about multicultural literature. Anybody can write...
...however, should take note that the world is watching like a hawk. No meddling and cia-sponsored attempts to overthrow legitimately elected governments will be tolerated. It is not the '70s or '80s anymore. Play fair. Coenie Kukkuk Pretoria The Abode of Souls David van Biema's essay on the roman Catholic Church's changing its teaching on limbo took me back to the '50s, when I grew up attending a Catholic school [Jan. 9]. As described by the nuns, limbo [the afterlife for infants who die before being baptized] was similar to life on earth but without sickness, death...
David Van Biema's Essay "Life After Limbo"on the Roman Catholic Church's changing its teaching on limbo took me back to the '50s, when I grew up attending a Catholic school [Jan. 9]. As described by the nuns, limbo [the afterlife for infants who die before being baptized] was similar to life on earth but without sickness, death, unhappiness or failure. I was absolutely furious that I had been baptized and was therefore ineligible for limbo. Heaven, on the other hand, involved endless God worshipping and constant harp strumming. It struck me as terribly boring. The only thing...