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...that Zhu had portrayed himself as the innocent victim of dark forces. He had long maintained that other officials in Heilongjiang had set him up after he discovered their connection to the bomb-shelter debacle. In a 34-page letter to the court, he described being chained to a hook on the cement floor of a prison basement as interrogators beat him into confessing. "If you die here," he quoted one saying, "your family won't even get your ashes." The official who oversaw the investigation, he went on, was one of those he had discovered taking bribes...
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...They let the entire system off the hook when they said, ‘We’ll do it with all deliberate speed,’” Ogletree said, referring to a controversial clause in the decision. “That means slow...
...fantastically romantic notion, that thousands of young men and women could descend on a broken place and make it better, not decades from now but right away, hook up the high school Internet lab, send the Army engineers to repair the soccer field, teach the town council about Robert's Rules and all the while watch your back. They debate how much to tell their loved ones back home, who listen to each news report of victories won and lives lost with the acute attention that dread demands. They complain less about the danger than the uncertainty: they are told...