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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Communist takeover in 1949. "The Red Guards branded me as a big capitalist and an undercover ((Taiwan)) spy," Liu, 71, recalls with a wry smile. "They kept me in solitary confinement for over a year and later organized a pictorial exhibit of my crimes." These included photos of various articles of Western-style dress belonging to Liu and his wife that Red Guards had found in the course of ransacking their apartment...
...fiery summer of 1988 scared away tourists, it had relatively little impact on Yellowstone's animals, compared with the normal rigors of winter. The fires killed only 335 of the 31,000-member elk herd. But a harsh winter eliminated almost 5,000 more, and their carcasses lie in various states of decomposition throughout the park...
...this point it's been a kind of educational enterprise in a sense, namely we are being briefed on how things work," says Maher of the body's first meetings, which he describes as a series of "mini-seminars from various budget officers and people who are in charge of space...
...they threaten to bring our years at Harvard full circle. Have you noticed, for instance, how many people at senior bars are people you haven't seen since Freshperson Week? In fact, almost all the scheduled senior events, from the brunch at the Harvard Union to the various fetes during Commencement Week, are advertised with the slogan, "It'll be just like the time our class did this Freshperson Week...
...group of spear- shaking warriors in lavalava skirts, fierce tattoos on many thighs. A former Hollywood bit actor resumes his role as the "talking chief" of Leone, leading his villagers through hymn-inflected island chants and primal dances. And then, just before Governor Peter Coleman, Congressman Eni Faleomavaega and various other dignitaries get ready to join in the final swaying dance, a village chorus sits on the ground, chants its age-old traditions and dramatically, for its climax, flashes -- what else? -- an American flag...