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...would listen?and instead of finding justice, Li found himself on a Homeric journey through the communist bureaucracy. Over the following 24 years, his obsessive persistence was rewarded with several stints in detention centers, where he claims guards whipped him with his own belt and choked him with his shoelaces. Last December, when Li tried to enter a National People's Congress (NPC) petition office with his precious stack of documents, an official grabbed the papers and lit them on fire?to Li, a more devastating blow than any physical torture. "Without my papers, there...
...They wanted people there who were interested in what was happening in the culture, who could take the pulse and put that in the paper. The New York Times no longer pretends that we are the last bastion of mid-seventies thinking. We understand that people watch television and listen to these CDs, and go out, and don’t just go to theater all the time...
...Tired.” He writes that all the “little sounds add up and come together in a kind of hum. But it’s so faint—so very, very faint—that you can’t hear it unless you listen very carefully for a long time...
...listening for the background is not something that we do very well. In fact, we tend to do everything in our power to increase the amount of background noise in our lives. We listen to music on headphones as we walk to class; we read as we eat meals; and we talk on the cell phone as we drive to work, sipping scalding hot coffee all the while—this, as it happens, is just plain dangerous. I’m as much a culprit as the next guy—right now, I’m drinking...
...these worries are nothing new—many at Harvard have been uncomfortable with Summers’ tactics, which too often hint at contempt for students and faculty. It is a sad reality that we have to continue to ask Summers to loosen his grip on information and thoughtfully listen to what all the stakeholders at the University have...