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China's President isn't used to being heckled. But last Thursday, as Hu Jintao addressed reporters at the White House during his U.S. visit, a woman from a newspaper run by the meditation sect Falun Gong loudly interrupted him, calling him a "murderer" and threatening that his days were numbered. Among other allegations, Falun Gong, which is banned in China, accuses Chinese hospitals of harvesting organs from executed prisoners - including some of the sect's own members - and selling them for transplants. But Falun Gong activists aren't the only ones concerned about China's organ trade...
...appears to have become more radical since his arrest. Which perhaps isn't surprising. He joined an extremist sect. He underwent a kind of brainwashing. And he's faced hard conditions in isolation for years. Maybe it's like someone who feels they are in the middle of the sea: they hold even tighter to the buoy that got them there...
...issues, Hu's first visit to the White House was marked more by visuals than anything else. There was the well-choreographed arrival on the South Lawn, which was upset by a "journalist" for a newspaper run by the Falun Gong, who protested China's crackdown on the religious sect. "Of course we knew she was with a Falun Gong paper," said a senior Administration official trying to explain the snafu. "But if we'd kept her out, the world would have screamed that we were guilty of censorship." So her cries came to dominate the news cycle. If that...
...Which perhaps isn't surprising. He joined a sect - an extremist, violent sect. Like others in his case, he underwent a kind of brainwashing - as all people in sects do. Once someone is brainwashed, they are under the control of those they consider their leaders. What happens when they are cut off from those leaders? Zacary seems to have gone even further. Maybe it's like someone who feels like they are in the middle of the sea: they hold on even tighter to the buoy that got them there...
...find the Christian presence too overwhelming,” even if it was a little harder to avoid on Ash Wednesday.As President Eliot wrote in 1886, “A university cannot be built upon a sect”—unless that sect includes all the “educated portion of the nation.” Indeed, the active presence of groups like Christian Impact, Hillel, and the Islamic Society is a clear indicator that though the Harvard we know today is more likely to leave its proverbial cross on the bedstand than dress...