Word: talese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dead men may tell no tales, but they can certainly cause trouble. Last week, as the Philippine government continued to block the return of the body of Ferdinand Marcos, public outrage was growing over its lack of compassion. Critics across the political spectrum have called President Corazon Aquino's ban...
"We do not believe there was any tragedy in Tiananmen Square," declared Jiang. The incident, he went on, was the "unavoidable" consequence of the attempt by some demonstrators to "overthrow the socialist system." He likened media reports about the situation in Beijing to "fairy tales from the Arabian Nights."
If the crashes were comparable as cautionary tales, they differed sharply in severity. The LaGuardia accident resulted in two deaths and seven hospital admissions. The Chad mishap killed all 171 people on board. Yet in the week following the two crashes, the Washington Post ran an identical number of stories...
The Institute of Politics forum, entitled "Eyewitness to a Massacre: Tales from Tianamen Square," included one student and two reporters who were in Beijing the nightthat Chinese army units dispersed students who hadmassed in the Chinese capital for weeks, killinghundreds of them.
Perhaps because the Chinese are historically indifferent to introspection (as befits a culture where family rather than self is the core of an individual's identity), I never hear a coherent analysis of the Cultural Revolution, an event that so inverted the natural order that parents were shamed, beaten and...