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...year-old boy with a stiff cowlick waits at the safe house near a cabbage field on Beijing's dusty outskirts. He is a Falun Gong orphan, living testimony of the crackdown's wreckage. His family members were neighborhood leaders, lieutenants in the group's structure. When the crackdown began, the boy returned from school to find police surrounding his home. Twenty days later, the authorities broke in to discover his granny and aunt hanging side by side in a dual suicide, presumably to avoid persecution. They incarcerated the boy's mother in the kindergarten where she taught. She slept...
...things,” Binkley said. “I’ve learned a lot about the physics of the boat. I used to think, ‘OK, the thing’s floating, I’m glad. Oh, the boat’s nice and stiff,’ but I never knew...
...natural empathy for the suffering rallied the whole country or whether it was his emotional vulnerability while being deposed for sexual-harassment charges, Clinton gave our politics a soft, emotional underbelly we grew used to. In Britain, the voters just backed softhearted new father Tony Blair over the stiff upper lip of William Hague. I admire the Bush-Cheney style, but it doesn't soothe a somewhat pampered public. If the Republican leaders don't adjust a little and add a patina of 1990s sensitivity to 1950s propriety, they may find the voters looking to other models of fatherhood...
...regular season was a bit of a mixed bag. After racing off to a fast start that ran the Crimson's record up to 4-1, Harvard ran into some stiff competition in the second half of the season and dropped its last six meets...
First the captain, current Carolina Hurricane Craig Adams '99 came in and tried to keep a stiff upper lip. I asked the first question and kept following up. To my surprise, the pros from the Boston Globe and Herald simply let me do all the talking-completely satisfied in the quotes they were getting. The rest of the Crimson tried to skirt the media that night. Just when I thought I would have to make do with Adams, then-sophomore defenseman Graham Morrell, a tough nosed kid from Natick who has sadly been injured far too often in his career...