Word: happenned
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Knowing something is not the same as watching it happen. There is nothing new in the proposition that Marxism is riven with contradictions as fatal to the system as they are brutal to its subjects. For decades critics of Communism have been saying that the party has no legitimacy; that its claims of representation are a tattered veil for its true function of repression; that for all their apparent obedience, passivity and discipline, many or even most of the populace are not just unhappy but deeply angry and increasingly overt in their defiance...
...thousands of years spanned by Chinese history, unspeakable atrocities have occurred. Millions have suffered from the machinations of cloistered emperors, empresses and eunuchs; whole cities have been slaughtered by marauding invaders and warlords. Until Sunday, that all seemed safely in the past. No one quite expected it to happen again. The shock will ease with the passage of weeks. The tremors will be felt for years...
...gotten a big boulder rolling and we're in motion, but now a lot of what is going to happen will depend on Dean Putnam," Ramsey Professor of Political Economy Richard J. Zeckhauser says...
...Such episodes threaten the public trust and integrity of medical research," said Tosteson in a letter printed in November, after the case was publicized. "I hope that knowing that an episode of this kind can happen will help us to dedicate ourselves anew to the highest standards of conduct...
...remember receiving a letter from a college that had an opening that I was applying for that said, 'your credentials are wonderful, you should be an associate professor instead of an assistant professor, but we don't want to hire you [because you are a woman].' That would never happen today. Someone might think it, but one would never write it down. Things are much better. When I first went to Washington University I was not allowed to meet with the other administrators--they had never had a woman in the administrators' loop. When I first began to meet with...