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...Beijing, he possessed a quiet conviction that justice would be done. It was 1980, and Li's father had been stabbed to death under mysterious circumstances in the family's eastern home province of Shandong. Suspecting that local village chiefs whom Li's father had criticized were to blame, and unable to get any help from police, Li, then 21, gathered his meager life savings and trekked from Shandong to the capital. There, he began endlessly ferrying documents from one government agency to another, hoping each official chop from this bureau or that office might result in an inquiry into...
...Don’t blame Columbia for running into a buzzsaw Friday night...
...grave is surrounded by offerings of candles, a bottle of orange soda, a picture of the Virgin Mary and a bottle of rum. These days in Gonaives, Metayer's mourners have been making another kind of tribute to his memory: hunting down officials of the government, which they blame for Metayer's murder--in one case cutting off a policeman...
...Mountain Goats’ incomparable songwriting accessible, on the recently-released We Shall All Be Healed, songwriter John Darnielle tiredly rehashes concepts, playing the same guitar lines he’s stuck to his entire musical career. And though every old-time Mountain Goats fan will want to blame the professional major-label recording, this lackluster release’s flaws have nothing to do with that...
...Summers is not the only one to blame in this case. Students and faculty should not allow other administrators to think they can sit idly by. We are particularly frustrated with the lackluster work of Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, who has apparently done little to better the relationship between FAS professors and the president. Kirby should try to get more information to professors who are feeling disenfranchised and deceived, or at least explain to them why they aren’t being consulted. Instead, Kirby stayed mum while his Faculty was given a blunt message from President...