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A few days later, there came to my house a slightly built man wearing a pair of tinted spectacles. With him came two other men and a woman wearing armbands with the three Chinese characters for ''revolutionaries.'' ''You are the class enemy of this house, guilty of conspiring with foreign...
The young woman waiting to greet Nien Cheng outside the prison was not Meiping, as she still kept hoping, but her goddaughter Hean, the daughter of an old friend. Hean took Cheng to a small house where the released prisoner had been assigned two rooms on the second floor. But...
50,508 Number of wounded American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs website in November
21,649 Number of wounded troops listed on the website as of Jan. 10, after it corrected an error that included noncombat injuries
As bloodied penitents stumble from the circles, others rush in to grab their places. Flails are handed off to newcomers, and the crowd surges to enfold the wounded with scarves that become souvenirs, rendered holy by the blood of living martyrs. Throughout the day, waves of barebacked young men enter...