Word: retreatism
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...students, and whose rallying cries rose above the protesters in 1989. This flesh-and-blood "Goddess of Democracy" escaped the square on June 4, just before the tanks rolled in. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, were killed, and many wonder if the decision by Chai and other leaders not to retreat ultimately led to the bloodshed; she maintains its magnitude could never have been precicted. After hiding for 10 months, Chai eventually reached France (she's saving the details of her escape for a forthcoming autobiography), and was granted political asylum. She came to the U.S. in 1990 and earned a master...
...Retreat for Students...
...notion that one of the goals of the Houses is to 'throw together' students of different origins and interests," they wrote. "We do not find persuasive some of the arguments put forward in opposition to heterogeneity, such as the need for the Houses to be a place for retreat from the stresses of College life, this supposedly requiring students [to] be able to restrict their social contacts to persons similar to themselves...
McDonough adds, "I remember standing on top of the stadium at the end of the game and looking across the parking lot. It was like the retreat from Warsaw, everyone was trudging the snow, people were throwing snowballs...
...something had to give," she says. Her studies have lost out for now, but as a reminder, she sports tattoos of a dolphin and a wolf, along with her trademark Grateful Dead tie-dyed headbands. And when beach life gets too hot, she goes camping on her 40-acre retreat in Colorado...