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...spraying, horn-honking bash that continued well past dawn, into the following day and then another dawn. As the daily BZ would headline: berlin is berlin again. Beijing June 19, 1989 One man against an army. The power of the people versus the power of the gun. There he stood, implausibly resolute in his thin white shirt, an unknown Chinese man facing down a lumbering column of tanks. For a moment that will be long remembered, the lone man defined the struggle of China's citizens. "Why are you here?" he shouted at the silent steel hulk. "You have done...
...years the founder's rule has stood: Only members of the Swarovski family, two independent board directors and a few dozen top managers have unrestricted access to the production facility. Even the 6,200 employees who work in the factory (and they make up the better part of the population of Wattens) see only bits and pieces of the production cycle...
...Cheney spoke to GOP donors, all of whom had shelled out $2,500 to hear him speak, protestors stood a block away bemoaning the vice president’s presence in the city...
When Time ran an article on the Facebook revolt on Sept. 6, the lead anti-feed group had 284,000 members. As of yesterday evening, the group stood at over 744,000. (The self-proclaimed “Largest Facebook Group Ever” claims 857,087 members as of last night...
...determine who speaks to a university. Those decisions ought to be made with regard to what contribution a speaker stands to make to the intellectual community. With Iran dominating front pages around the world because of its deadly dance with the United Nations and nuclear arms, Khatami surely stood ready to make such a contribution to Harvard...