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...recent crackdown by Beijing has made the asylum seekers' quest more difficult. Last week, Chinese guards used cattle prods on a group of 19 North Koreans trying to get into Beijing's South Korean embassy. The defectors, charged Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue, "are undermining China's social order and stability." Maybe so, but these days all they really want is a shot at the American Dream...
...skilled and the educated. In 1978, dimly sensing his reign of terror was collapsing, he issued a belated directive for cadres to ease up on summary executions, yet simultaneously launched a bloody purge of suspected Vietnam sympathizers. And so, with astonishing rapidity, a movement founded on a quest for social justice degenerated into a cruel and self-defeating experiment in social engineering, in which people were, as Short puts it, merely "soulless instruments in the working out of a grand national design...
...Crimson (7-0, 4-0 Ivy) squeaked by Dartmouth (0-7, 0-4) 13-12 on Saturday, narrowly avoiding having its title quest upended for the second straight year by the heavy underdogs from New Hampshire...
...Titling this film Movie, Thou Art Disturbing, Depressing, Not Very Uplifting Nor Powerful At All! would be far more appropriate. The main character, Michelle (Kimberly Elise), is raped by her mother’s boyfriend at the age of twelve, and cannot reconcile her painful past with her spiritual quest for God. To Elise’s credit, she does as much as much as possible with such a weak script. On her time in jail: “I was getting raped in the shower and a woman was pulling my leg, just like I’m pulling...
...single change in a single base in the middle of the gene seemed directly related to the ability to feel self-transcendence," Hamer says. Merely having that feeling did not mean those people would take the next step and translate their transcendence into a belief in--or even a quest for--God. But they seemed likelier to do so than those who never got the feeling...