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...hardly alone in his hopeless quest. At any given time, an estimated 50,000 aggrieved citizens from all over the mainland can be found in a collection of slums surrounding the ill-named Happiness Road that fronts one of the biggest of Beijing's 30 or so petition offices. This petitioners' village, with its desperate residents pushing plastic bags filled with documents at any interested passersby, is an embarrassment for the central government. So, each year, as the NPC plans its annual meeting in the capital to discuss major legislative and social issues, the police raze the petitioners' shantytown?only...
...exam—purports to understand that the Social Planner must impose regulation when everyone has every incentive to storm Adams for lunch, Dartboard also knows that rules (just like clichés) are made to be manipulated. So when, just as Dartboard and Friend prepared to abandon their quest and retreat to the distant Quincy House, two of Dartboard and Friend’s friends—real live Adams residents—came to the rescue, Dartboard thought he had the answer. “We’re their guests!” Dartboard exclaimed...
Martin began to write Back Bay, chronicling the fictional Peter Fallon’s quest to find a missing Paul Revere tea set stolen from the White House. Martin set up his now routine past-and-present structure, bringing the reader from 18th-century Boston to modern day chapter by chapter, chronicling six generations on their hunt for the missing silver. The book ends with an appropriately cinematic touch—Fallon blowing a hole into the side of a T subway tunnel to reveal a cache of hidden silver. “I thought, as I still...
...Harvard dominated the meet at every turn, the team’s focus shifted almost entirely to Morrissey’s quest to complete his laborious task. The Iron Man tradition is passed down each year to one freshman, who must swim in each race at the last dual meet of the season...
...Yale for the Ivy title, the Hall-Quibell contest turned out to be the deciding match as Hall knocked out her younger opponent in four tight games. One week before, Quibell had stunned Hall at the Howe Cup 3-1 as the Bulldogs cut short Harvard’s quest for a second straight national title...