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...Zuoyun, who was sitting in my office, had been brutally beaten. Two were under house arrest. A third - Sun Xuede, who had been elected with 85% of the vote - had disappeared. The four men were in Beijing to petition the central government for help. But their voyage proved ill-fated. Police from Qixia intercepted them at the petitions office and loaded them onto a train home. Back in Qixia, all four were badly beaten. Two were jailed for 38 days...
...most dangerous moment in popular movie-making occurs when honest sentiment shades over into dishonest sentimentality. It is, for example, dismaying to see terminally ill patients in movies remaining perky and life-affirming right up until the moment they die. And worse,showing no physical or emotionally ill effects - no pallor, emaciation or, for that matter, anger or fear - as they approach life...
...would think that Rupert Murdoch’s blatant censorship would be lambasted in the media, but surprisingly, it is Judith Regan who has received the punishment. After Murdoch’s public statement that the project was “ill considered,” Regan released her own statement entitled, “Why I Did It.” In it, she identifies herself as a victim of domestic abuse and attempts to justify her decision to publish the book...
...greenhouse-gas warming. Maybe if Gore would recognize that we cannot control global warming as much as we think, we could set aside such a relatively unimportant issue and move the crucial crises, such as genocide and starvation, to the top of the political agenda. DONNIE BOYCE Lake Forest, Ill...
...literate in math. How many teenage store clerks are capable of making change? There are already math lessons that have been passed down for thousands of years. Why don't we go back to using them? Let's make our educators teach for a change. JULIE A. POTTS Belleville, Ill...