Word: forbidden
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...board members through a side door, but an employee fended off questions about the meeting inside.“I can’t talk to anyone,” the caterer told a reporter while ferrying trays into Loeb. She confirmed only that she had been forbidden to speak to the press before disappearing into the house.The reporters and chauffeurs were soon joined on the increasingly crowded street by a Harvard police officer, who patrolled the crosswalk leading to the Barker Center. Inside the humanities building, a bust of John Harvard looked down on a few technicians setting...
...toes; I did this twice a day. At first, the exercise exhausted me, and I had to interrupt it with frequent rest. Also I had to avoid the prying eyes of the guards, as exercise other than a few minutes of walking in the cell after meals was forbidden. Nevertheless, I managed to exercise each day and after a few months I recovered my physical strength somewhat, as well as my feeling of well-being. For mental exercise, I first tried to memorize some of Mao's essays to enable me to understand his mentality better...
...Tent Commandments” is a tale of a late-19th century struggle for survival between a circus and a sideshow, punctuated by undertones that—according to a Hasty Pudding press release—include “forbidden love and deception.” —Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...
...there was ever a demonstration of how virtual China can be rushed to judgment, it must be the current controversy over the Starbucks branch in Beijing's Forbidden City, the iconic former imperial palace complex that is one of the most potent symbols of Chinese imperial grandeur. The furor was started by Rui Chenggang, an English-language news announcer on the government's China Central Television. Rui wrote in his blog last week complaining about the presence of the Starbucks inside the hallowed walls of the Forbidden City. The presence of the coffee chain there was ?eroding Chinese culture...
...appeal to nationalism, predictably enough, brought an avalanche of outrage. Rui's online petition to remove Starbucks from the Forbidden City garnered half a million signatures; the Beijing News carried the story; Starbucks PR people made placating noises (there are already 200 outlets in China and the company aims to make the country its biggest market after the U.S., so they were ripe for the plucking); and various wangchong - networms, as they are known - made knee-jerk nationalist comments. In fact, the outlet, a tiny, hole-in-the-wall store with no sign outside, has been serving its signature overpriced...