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...Beijing appears to be trying hard not to let ethnic turmoil metastasize. The Chinese press did not report news of the clashes until Monday evening, when a brief item was first released only on the English-language news wire of the official Xinhua News Agency. No mention was made that the conflict was between the Hui and the Han. And in contrast with the internal document circulated to Henan officials, the Xinhua article gave a death toll of only seven. The news black-out may have had as much to do with Beijing's fear of social disorder snowballing into...
...enigma. Was the young man nicknamed "Super" back in his hometown of Rich Square, North Carolina, really an unrepentant traitor, as the U.S. Army charged? Accusations that he had made several broadcasts across the DMZ urging others in his unit to join him in the North-not to mention his roles in a number of 1980s propaganda films as a Yankee imperialist devil-seemed to suggest that he was. Or was he kidnapped by North Korean agents and brainwashed, as some family members and supporters claimed? Was he a privileged and pampered ward of the Hermit Kingdom, a trophy apostate...
...Nobody had to mention why. Some would say, I’m having a bad day and we all understood why,” Britto said...
...narrative: the son of a Kansan mother and a Kenyan father with a Harvard Ph.D, he referred to himself simply as “a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too,” and didn’t mention his Ivy League background...
This summer, Carrie E. Andersen ’08, who is also from Illinois, saw Riesman’s mention of Obama on his thefacebook.com profile and sent him an enthusiastic message. She eventually helped him coordinate the concert. Riesman said the concert drew 300 people and was responsible for 150 youth voter registrations...