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...evading the clutches of adults both well and ill meaning, as she travels from Chicago to Washington State, where her widowed father has been forced to go for work, Natty predictably acquires a furry, four-legged friend. But this is no instantly lovable mutt; it is a full-grown, fang-baring wolf--the fairy-tale villain turned into a saving presence. He makes an apt symbol for a handsome, moral and emotionally satisfying movie that is too strong-minded to settle for those virtues or for easy sentiment and cheap nostalgia...
...Beijing correspondent. In “Wild Grass: Three Portraits of Change in Modern China,” Johnson tells the stories of three Chinese citizens who have challenged the government. Ma Wenlin, a law clerk, helped overtaxed farmers file a class-action suit against the government. Fang Ke, an architecture student, wrote an influential underground book detailing the destruction of old Beijing. Chen Zixiu, a retiree and a member of the Falun Gong sect, refused to give up her religious practices in the face of government condemnation...
...don’t quite buy it. From reading Johnson’s book, it is depressingly unclear that the efforts he describes have amounted to anything. Of the three people he portrayed, Mr. Ma was imprisoned and subsequently blacklisted from the legal profession, Mr. Fang left the country altogether for MIT and the World Bank, and Ms. Chen died at the hands of Communists. None of the three accomplished their objectives...
...really surprised to see how many people did not disable their locks,” said Jane Fang ’08, a CSC student representative. “On the opposite side of that spectrum, one of the towers in Currier probably had about 75 percent of its doors unlocked. If Currier and Winthrop could be changed to auto-locking doors, I think that would be great because it seems to work...
...Overall, the campaign was really successful and I think we accomplished our main objective of creating awareness of locking doors,” said Fang. “There was a lot of buzz from the notes we slipped under doors...