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...Until the crackdown, the spring of 1989 felt like one of those rare moments when it seemed possible to take advantage of the sudden cracks in history in order to reshape it. Many in Hong Kong yearn for that chance again. This spring, during my second extended stay in Hong Kong since I left for California 17 years ago - where the statue's replica still sits on my desk - I went back to that familiar spot by the flagpoles. There, I thought of a TV interview that I saw in Hong Kong a few weeks ago, in which a local...
...President Dick Cheney, had previously claimed that Abu Zubaydah supplied that information only after he was waterboarded. But Soufan says once the rough treatment began - administered by CIA-hired private contractors with no interrogation experience - Abu Zubaydah actually stopped cooperating. (Read "Dick Cheney: Why So Chatty All of a Sudden...
...Washington led CNOOC to withdraw its bid. This deal, they said, fell apart for economic - not political - reasons. The proposed Chinalco investment came when global commodity prices were at their nadir; BHP had walked away from a merger with Rio a few months earlier, and the company was in sudden and desperate need of cash to cope with a nearly $40 billion debt burden...
Whether he was doing medical research in a Harvard lab, playing the violin as a section leader in the Mozart Society Orchestra, or just hanging out, Peter Cai ’10 could always be found with a smile on his face, friends said. The Adams House resident died suddenly late last October, going into cardiac arrest near Weld Boathouse after completing the men’s race of the semiannual River Run. “This is the worst type of tragedy,” said Adams House Master Sean G. Palfrey...
Author Joan Didion will be the recipient of an honorary doctor of letters degree. In 2005, she received a National Book Award for her novel The Year of Magical Thinking, a memoir she wrote following her husband’s sudden death...