Word: mao
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...satisfied with his scoop that a liberal Harvard professor of constitutional law would agree to torture. Indeed, they had quite an amiable chat, as though Dershowitz had uttered a seminal thought that had not been thought previously or put into practice by Caligula, Torquemada, Hitler, Stalin and Mao...
...education through labor. Their crime: parents labeled as enemies of the people. The nameless protagonist is the son of doctors, while Luo's father is an eminent dentist who threatened national security by revealing a state secret: in a moment of weakness he boasted he had once fit Mao Zedong with new teeth...
...never falter. At their first meeting with the village headman, an ex-opium farmer turned communist cadre, the narrator's violin is adjudged a stupid and bourgeois city toy. To prove differently he plays a Mozart sonata. "What's it called?" challenges the headman. Mozart Is Thinking of Chairman Mao is Luo's politically correct and resourceful - if grossly inaccurate - response...
Just a stone's throw from Burma is a small, mountainous corner of Thailand that might as well be in China. But you won't find portraits of Mao hanging on the walls or Little Red Books being thumbed in the village tea shops. Instead you might find battered copies of Chiang Kai-shek's memoirs, and your server will probably speak Yunnanese...
...does not normally expect a Republican American President to confirm the wisdom of a Chinese communist, but if ever proof were needed of Mao Zedong's maxim that "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun," the war in Afghanistan waged by George W. Bush's Administration has just supplied it. To the shock, it might be added, of those Americans who, but the day before yesterday, still did not appreciate how awe-inspiring their country's military had become. At the end of October, as the forces of the Northern Alliance seemed to shirk a fight...