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...capable not only of assuming a defensive attitude, but one of absolute offense." A century after Weale's Harbin sojourn, accommodations there are more, well, accommodating. Among the classier places to stay is the Lungmen Hotel, tel: (86-451) 8679 1888. Once a station hotel along the Trans-Siberian railroad, the Lungmen is a portal to Harbin's colonial past, when the city was ruled by Russians and vied with Shanghai for the sobriquet "Paris of the East...
...Kate Clifford Larson will be discussing their new books: Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories and Bound for the Promised Land Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. These two biographies of Harriet Tubman finally allow us to see the human being behind the self-liberated Underground Railroad American heroine. Larson has spent years researching the life and times of Harriet Tubman. Humez is Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. Free. 3 p.m. Harvard Book Store...
...There is a place now reserved for their bones, a burial ground in Beijing dedicated to those who have died for their lost causes. A row of 14 unkempt graves lies near a railroad track, a tiny plot of earth too isolated for anyone but petitioners to claim. Some of those buried here had committed suicide out of despair, including one man who last April threw himself in front of a train just meters away from his eventual grave. Others succumbed to disease after living in flimsy shacks through Beijing's frigid winters. "I wonder if their families even know...
...things I had a right to, liberty or death," she later said. "If I could not have one, I would have the other." Like Jacobs, she wasn't satisfied with just her own freedom. Tubman led more than 200 slaves north out of captivity along the Underground Railroad...
...center began offering well-attended tours of the Crater battle site the week after Christmas to coincide with the opening of the film. In the hour-long walking tour, visitors can see where the idea for the tunnel was hatched by Union soldiers as they looked across a railroad ravine at the entrenched Confederate troops. The opening to the 5 ft.-tall tunnel is still intact, and the crater is still there, although a bit smaller than it was in the 19th century...