Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...girl of rosy-cheeked innocence, is among the millions of "Educated Youth" sent to the countryside of China for manual labor during the Cultural Revolution. After inspecting her good behavior, the unit authorities assign her to learn horse-herding in the Tibetan plains with Lao Jin, a former soldier who lost his manhood by a knife. Despite a warm fuzzy friendship with his apprentice, Lao Jin can only watch helplessly as Xiu Xiu falls victim to a waning revolution and its callous participants. Director Joan Chen proves her stuff in depicting the transformation of a young girl into a desperate...
...girl of rosy-cheeked innocence, is among the millions of "Educated Youth" sent to the countryside of China for manual labor during the Cultural Revolution. After inspecting her good behavior, the unit authorities assign her to learn horse-herding in the Tibetan plains with Lao Jin, a former soldier who lost his manhood by a knife. Despite a warm fuzzy friendship with his apprentice, Lao Jin can only watch helplessly as Xiu Xiu falls victim to a waning revolution and its callous participants. Director Joan Chen proves her stuff in depicting the transformation of a young girl into a desperate...
...largest group of students in recent memory rallying outside of University Hall, the Faculty voted to dismiss D. Drew Douglas '00, who pled guilty to the charge of indecent assault and in Fall 1998. The students called for "justice"--a cry that united activists from the Progressive Student Labor Movement, the Coalition against Sexual Violence and the Living Wage Campaign. Earlier that week, the University publicly endorsed "full disclosure" of the factory locations where Harvard apparel is made...
...long run, the goals of the progressive movement should be to reassert itself," Wehr said. "On a national level, labor could do a better job of asserting the interests of its members...
...task? We know you could reduce Wall Street to a smoldering heap of debris if you wanted to, but can you make us laugh? Rumor coming out of the Federal Reserve is that you have virtually abandoned your official duties to labor over drafts of your address, sending world markets into a precipitous tailspin. We appreciate the effort, and we hope on June 10 you'll feel it was all worth...