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...grandfatherly appearance made him seem cute. But Deng Xiaoping was not cute; he was far tougher than Americans could possibly imagine. He surely viewed life as a constant struggle, because that's what his own life had been. When visitors talked of injustice in China, he dismissed them with a wave of his hand. What the West would regard as injustice did not concern him much. These were niceties that neither he nor his country could afford. I saw Deng shake with real anger only when he talked about the Vietnamese, whom he saw as impudent. When Deng complained bitterly...
...competition for Stairmasters at the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) will be a little tougher next year...
...plight come to the attention of the mainstream Chicago press. "The Cabrini-Green rape would be widely known had the victim been white," wrote reporter Lee Bey in the Chicago Sun-Times on January 25. "Then it would have been news. Some legislator would have pushed for tougher laws against the brutalizers of children." While Cabrini-Green is slated for demolition, thousands of children still live in frightening circumstances. "I'm scared," says Tatiana Chatman, 11, who lives in a nearby building. "I don't even like to walk past strange men. They look at you. They just keep looking...
Other diva references abound. "You have to do it tougher," Pastore tells the group. "It's Tina Turner, not the Supremes...
Volpe and the team have more immediate concerns to occupy them. On Friday, Harvard goes up against Penn, one of the tougher teams in the Ivy league. Volpe will be wrestling Clinton Matter who is ranked first in the conference and in the upper half of the top 10 177-pounders in the nation...