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...admitted into a good middle school, she had to score 80% on the entrance examination while children of workers and peasants got in with 60%. ''This is unfair!'' I had exclaimed at the time, indignant that my child was being discriminated against. ''But Mommy,'' said Meiping, ''the teacher told us the children of workers and peasants have to do housework or cook the evening meal after school, and their parents can't help them with homework. The treatment I get is fair if you consider all that.'' She had learned to be philosophical at a young age. ( Because my daughter...
...crush the next cup. He toppled, and we fell in a heap together. The boy regained his feet and kicked me right in my chest. I cried out in pain. The others gathered around us, shouting at me angrily for interfering in their revolutionary activities. One of the teachers said to me, ''What do you think you are doing? Are you trying to protect your possessions?'' ''No, no, you can do whatever you like with my things. But you mustn't break these porcelain treasures. They are old and valuable and cannot be replaced,'' I said rather breathlessly. ''Shut...
...garden. A bonfire had been lit in the middle of the lawn. The Red Guards were standing around the fire tossing my books onto the flames. My heart tightened with pain. Several Red Guards began hammering on the furniture and breaking my records. I said to a teacher, ''These records are classical music by the great masters of Europe. Why not preserve the records and donate them to the Music Society?'' ''You live in the past,'' he said. ''Don't you know that our Great Leader has said that Western music of any kind is decadent? We are going...
DIED. Dale Noyd, 73, decorated Air Force captain and longtime Air Force Academy teacher who in 1966 drew worldwide attention as a humanist and conscientious objector to one war: Vietnam; of emphysema; in Seattle. After the Air Force refused his request to resign his commission based on his belief that the war was illegal and immoral, he filed a suit against the Pentagon that the Supreme Court declined to hear. Around the same time, he was court-martialed for refusing to train a pilot destined for Vietnam, sentenced to a year in jail and dishonorably discharged...
...only the media whom Gates is treating as adults. One senior officer said the top brass feel like they can now get a hearing for issues they never dared speak of; "It's like there's a substitute teacher in the classroom, people are coming out of the woodwork asking for stuff that they've bottled up." Gates himself acknowledged a change in atmosphere. "I would say what we have done, I hope, is create an environment in which the commanders feel open to requesting what they think they need, and then we will evaluate it here in the department...