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...Hush! Don't shout! The government will deal with your case in due course. You are not the only one.'' ''I'm innocent!'' I yelled. ''I've never committed any crime. You have no right to lock up a law-abiding citizen! I demand rehabilitation and an apology!'' ''Keep quiet!'' The guard was now shouting in anger. ''Have you gone mad?'' Sometimes my endurance outlasted the guards' patience, and they resorted to physical violence to silence me, hitting me or kicking my legs. They called me a ''hysterical old woman,'' but they never knew my real purpose in provoking them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life and Death in Shanghai | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

...while my daughter was attending a political meeting at her film studio, I was sitting alone in my study reading William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, which had come from a London bookshop with which I had an account. The house was very quiet. There was not the slightest sound or movement anywhere, almost as if everything in the house were waiting helplessly for its own destruction. Suddenly the doorbell began to ring incessantly. At the same time, there was a furious pounding of many fists on my front gate, accompanied by hysterical voices shouting slogans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life and Death in Shanghai | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

...think about it, but then it came to actually have to think about it, and we were still working in the Senate. I was receiving a lot of advice from people-all kinds of people who wanted me to run, who had ideas for me, but I needed the quiet space to really talk to myself about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hillary: "I Have to Earn Every Vote" | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...critical of Harvard’s intention to transform Rena Street, currently a dead end, into a large road called “Stadium Way” that would connect the area’s two major thoroughfares, Western Avenue and North Harvard Street. Near a “quiet [and] attractive,” residential area, “these projects would bring noise, air, and visual pollution to this special neighborhood,” claimed a flyer distributed by the Allston-Brighton Community Planning Initiative. Harvard officials said repeatedly that the January master plan is not the finalized...

Author: By P. KIRKPATRICK Reardon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Allston Master Plan Met with Frustration | 1/31/2007 | See Source »

Driving along a desert road near the Red Sea resort of Eilat Monday morning, an Israeli officer picked up a young Arab hitchhiker. The reserve colonel dropped off his passenger at a quiet Eilat shopping mall, but he had lingering suspicions about the youth - so he called the Eilat police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror Returns to Israel | 1/29/2007 | See Source »

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