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...faltering voice. ''I was a spy for the British imperialists,'' he said. ''I joined the British spy organization through this woman's husband. After he died, this woman became my boss. At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, she warned me not to confess and promised me a large sum of money if I would hold out.'' I felt I must put a stop to this farce. I jerked my head up and laughed uproariously. There was a moment of stunned silence. The man behind me pushed my head down again. Another man shouted, ''What are you laughing...
...they belong to the same side. Now we are going to destroy the capitalist class, so naturally the intellectuals are to be destroyed too.'' Getting really desperate, I said, ''Don't you realize all these things are extremely valuable? You can sell them in Hong Kong for a large sum of money. You will be able to finance your world revolution with that money.'' Perhaps, being an older person, the teacher felt some sense of responsibility. She asked me, ''Are you sure your collection is valuable? How much would you say it is worth?'' ''As a rough estimate, at least...
...Whether it was the growing significance of the Asian economies as compared with the Atlantic ones, or the extent to which technology has distributed economic clout from producers to consumers - and in the media business, turned consumers into producers themselves - the idea of a power shift seemed neatly to sum up what was on people's minds. Some examples...
...rose, say, down to its atomic and subatomic particles. Likewise, they view consciousness as merely impulses within the brain. While this is sound science, it dismisses other routes to truth and meaning, such as philosophy and theology. The whole is greater than--or at least different from--the sum of its parts...
...Biology Andrew A. Biewener, who is the chair of the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and a member of UPCSE.The Harvard Corporation’s enthusiasm in following UPSCE’s recommendations and willingness to devote $50 million to their implementation—a virtually unheard of sum for a single initiative—is a welcome achievement for Harvard’s interdisciplinary science initiative. It demonstrates that such initiatives are at the top of the priority list of the upper echelons of Harvard’s—a development that has grabbed...