Word: rooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yunzhong lives in Ansha township, 19 miles from the city of Changsha. Ten minutes' walk up the valley from his two-room house he pointed out where the Zhu clan's palace once stood. It had "dozens of rooms" and a covered walkway leading over the hill to the family temple. "We used to say that whichever path you took from here to Changsha, you had to pass over Zhu land," says Yunzhong. The palace was destroyed in an antilandlord campaign in the 1950s, but Zhu's privileged background was not forgotten by Mao's regime...
...engineer of the brutality, he is both the man we have to deal with and the man we want no dealings with whatsoever. Threats to charge him with war crimes at the Hague tribunal may feel good, but an indictment would disqualify diplomats from sitting in the same room with him. He may have committed too many terrible deeds for the West, in good conscience, to make political deals with...
Like most freshmen at the University of Michigan, Peter Romer-Friedman came to campus wide-eyed and full of school spirit. After arriving in the fall of 1997, he decorated his dorm room with posters of his school teams, cheered on the Wolverines at the Rose Bowl and proudly outfitted himself in Michigan sweatshirts and caps. Then last summer, during an internship with the AFL-CIO, he started to hear how Michigan and other colleges get their sportswear--by employing licensing companies that use overseas factories where garment workers toil long hours, often for pennies...
...realize that not including the children of high rollers among the original acceptances could add to the scheme's appeal. Rich people tend to be thrilled by the opportunity to get into places that are supposedly full. It makes them feel important. That's what those silly locker-room discussions about which big shot really has power come down to: Knicks tickets and tables at hot restaurants...
Last week this urban Robinson Crusoe, an unemployed comic nicknamed Nasubi (the Japanese word for eggplant), emerged from his Truman Show-like hermitage with the subtlety typical of TV in Japan: he was led into another room, the walls collapsed away and a crowd roared with delight. "You mean, everyone has been watching my naked body all this time?" he asked. In fact, his genitals had been covered by an electronic eggplant...