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...tracked developments from afar, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ian Johnson had a much closer seat as the Wall Street Journal’s 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...
...Johnson pens these portraits in clean, spare prose, allowing the poignant stories to shine. One has the sense of being transported bodily to China; Johnson’s evocative descriptions of various Chinese locales are reminiscent of such fiction writers...
...Brown ’05 has danced on Broadway at Radio City Music Hall, Katie W. Johnson ’07 is taking next year off to dance in the national tour of “Cats,” Coral X. Day-Davis ’05 spent her first two years at Harvard on the varsity diving team, and Markham was a competitive figure skater before she came to Harvard...
...seen too many guys have problems after their football career ends,” explained Ted Johnson of the Patriots. “Football isn’t a career—it’s a starting point...
...compound Harvard’s difficulties, the wind died on Sunday—but the transfer of Johnson and Porter signaled that the race was not the team’s top priority...