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...guard shouting, ''Get up! Get up!'' The shutter of the small window on the door was pushed open. An oblong aluminum container appeared. A woman's voice said impatiently, ''Come over, come over.'' When I took the container, she said, ''In future, stand here at mealtimes and wait.'' She also handed me a pair of bamboo
...still moments when I was so burdened with hunger and misery that I was tempted to let go my tenuous grip on the lifeline of survival. At those times, I had to depend on conflict with the guards to stimulate my fighting spirit. ''How long do I have to wait for the government to investigate my case?'' I would shout at one of them. ''It's illegal to lock up an innocent person in prison. It's against Chairman Mao's teachings.'' ''Hush! Don't shout! The government will deal with your case in due course...
...almost never happened. Morin was a last-minute substitute for injured defenseman Brian McCafferty, whose name had already been printed on the line sheets.But Morin, who hadn’t played in Harvard’s last three games, converted his only shot of the night.“Wait long enough and be patient,” he said with a grin later that night, admitting he was keeping the puck a souvenir, “and things like that happen.”The Engineers managed a power-play score with less than four minutes remaining...
...also says he needed to wait for the right movie, passing on the teen-horror scripts that came flooding in as Lost became a hit. After spending his first hiatus from the show unemployed with his family in their house in Hawaii, he spent all this past summer working--first on We Are Marshall and then on this fall's Vantage Point, with Forest Whitaker and William Hurt. To fit both of these into his break, he had to persuade ABC and Warner Bros., the studio behind Marshall, to make a lot of compromises. (Fox's hair may have been...
...take us 10 to 15 years to really understand how to do this safely and then use the [reprogrammed] cells therapeutically, whereas we already have those [embryonic] cells available to use,” Cowan said. “So it’s sort of like saying wait 15 years until we can do it this way versus let’s go ahead and try to treat people who are suffering from really terrible diseases and try to find cures right...