Word: professor
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...Xiao Bing, the "rumormonger" who was sentenced to ten years in prison for "exaggerating" the Tiananmen death toll in an interview with ABC News (he said 20,000 had died). Absolutely everyone knows the tale of Xiao. "Xiao Bing makes a point about the future," says an economics professor in Chengdu. "The people in Beijing were there -- and so may be very willing to take to the streets again. But we elsewhere are more cautious. It's not that the propaganda campaign is working. Most of us know full well what went on -- if not the details, then the essence...
...maybe not powerful enough. My conversation with the professor takes place more or less publicly at a table for twelve in a teahouse in Chengdu, a drab city where the sun rarely shines more than 60 days a year. Instead of smoking and no-smoking sections -- almost everyone in China smokes -- this teahouse sets aside tables for those who want coffee. Unfortunately, we are at one of them. Drinking Chinese coffee is like drinking hot water with a distant memory of caffeine; there is an atavistic link somewhere, but it is not coffee...
While the professor talks about the government's propaganda efforts, his face becomes heavy. His brooding eyes are cast downward, his mouth grows sulky. But not because of the coffee, which he insists is "quite good." What causes the professor to lower his voice to a drone is the presence, at the next table, of a local Communist official. "They say he is honest," says the professor. "They say that he doesn't have a crooked bone in his body. Maybe so, but I am certain those bones are held together by crooked...
...Professor of History Steven Ozment, discussing Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence's first five years in office...
Thanks Anyway: Geyser University Professor and Corporation member Henry Rosovsky was more than a little surprised to find a team of reporters waiting for him at Logan Airport as he stepped off the 9:30 New York shuttle one night last week. But Rosovsky was not ruffled for long--he answered their questions, and even offered the subway-bound duo a free cab ride home. Too bad he was heading to Newton, and not Cambridge...