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...Wild Ginger, Min's protagonist, has been marked out as a potential subversive since birth. She has exotic yellow-green eyes, a reflection of her mixed parentage (European father, Chinese mother). She starts off as a spunky little rebel, bravely rescuing the narrator, Maple, from the beatings of the schoolyard bully, Red Pepper. However, her need for acceptance makes her susceptible to brainwashing, and Wild Ginger becomes a Maoist hero (for foiling a burglary at a factory) and later develops into a communist demagogue. Her loyalty to the Red Machine requires her to repress her sexual yearnings for the resident...
Even as observers comforted one another, crime-scene investigators in white plastic jumpsuits could be seen inside gathering evidence. Authorities are also looking into accounts of a second gunman who followed children into the schoolyard during the confusion and then fled...
...partisan vote that ended Pickering’s nomination was juvenile in that Democrats behaved like a pack of schoolyard bullies. Instead of giving Pickering a fair hearing, they ganged up to vilify him as “racist”—a charge entirely unsubstantiated by his judicial record...
...Among his first duties was attempting to quell a simmering dispute between clans controlling two villages. A schoolyard brawl that had ended with a student's ear being hacked off had escalated into a local war. "I told the party secretary to stop this, but he was corrupt and didn't handle it," Liang says...
Yuki tried to instill discipline in his son, but Apolo was a tough nut. He chewed rocks in the schoolyard, hung out with a dangerous crowd in his early teens and made an art of defying his father. "I was rough. If my dad said yes, I said no. That's the way it was for years...