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Surfing the web in my room just a few minutes after noon, the top story on Nando.net (a compendium of Associated Press reports) is already "The Harvard Protests." The piece notes the existence of pro-Jiang demonstrators as an afterthought, a move I find disturbing given the make-up of the portion of the crowd that I saw. What's more, a slightly later edition of the same story states that Jiang took "several questions from members of the audience," a claim that rests somewhere between misleading and false...
...noon on Saturday, I squeezed my way into the enemy stands, my Crimson hat intact and only a press pass preventing possible attacks. Like Dustin Hoffman in the upcoming movie "Mad City," I was a journalist in a precarious position, abusing my privileges to snag some juicy quotes...
Tsibliyev seemed distracted, thinking less about what he was doing tonight than what he would be doing tomorrow. Sometime in the morning, probably just before noon, the commander would lock his remote-control guidance system onto an unmanned Progress cargo ship hovering far away and bring it into the station for a docking. For a commander like Tsibliyev, steering a limber little ship like Progress toward a big whale of a target like Mir should not have been cause for worry, and ordinarily he would have been looking forward to the exercise. But tomorrow things would not be so ordinary...
...JUNE 25, NOON Tsibliyev could always count on Lazutkin. When Sasha told you a piece of equipment was going to work, it usually did. Shortly before midday, the Mir crew gathered in the main module, and Tsibliyev sent a command to the Progress vehicle, instructing it to open its electronic-eye camera and train its gaze on the station. The camera responded, and moments later, the TV monitor, as promised, flickered to life. Tsibliyev and Lazutkin seemed pleased; Foale was decidedly less...
...Special CP Advisory: Every Sunday in November, noon, on Cinemax: a different "Planet of the Apes" movie. I recommend missing some football for at least three of them...