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...between private lives and that distant sense of a common ground was first bridged on April 26, when 150,000 people flooded the square to show disapproval of an inflammatory People's Daily editorial that denounced the students. "That was a major breakthrough in Chinese modern history," says Roderick MacFarquahar, director of Harvard's Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. It marked the "first time since 1949 that a demonstration by society against the state was made successfully in the face of a powerful government...
...Said MacFarquahar, "It would be much better if we didn't know our numbers. It was so much of a hassle...
...definitely worth it," said Larissa MacFarquahar '90, another pollster. "Otherwise we would have been a lot more conservative [with our house choices...
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