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...down neighborhood near the Beijing South train station. Yang says she has no choice. "Of course we still come. Our children are innocent. How could we not come?" In December 2005, fed up with the lack of response, four relatives bypassed the petition office and marched straight to the red gates of Zhongnanhai, the Communist Party headquarters. Fu Yuru, mother of He Guoqiang, who is serving a suspended death sentence for the crime, held aloft a banner calling for her son's freedom. The gesture cost the then 56-year-old 14 days in detention before she, like the others...
...however, was chartered to be both a fine-art and a natural-history museum. With collections that range from Buddhist sculpture to dinosaurs, it emphasizes objects over pictures, so straight walls are less of a priority. In any case, there are plenty of those in the older part of the ROM. And Libeskind insists that the dynamic lines of the galleries "energize" the works they hold. "The display of art is also not set for eternity," he says. "It has changed over time. Look how things were exhibited in the 19th century. Curators are not people who are asleep. They...
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT...
...Islamists. But he has doubts that the new, religious thrust of the resistance movement will lead to peace or a fair deal with Israel. For now, he says, it has only led to fighting among Palestinians. "The Koran says that if you kill your brother, you go straight to hell--and this is what we're doing," he says, outraged by recent news reports from Gaza of Hamas and Fatah militiamen killing each other in a power struggle. He thinks Palestinians should "try to fix our own problems before we take on the Israelis." Those problems are real enough. Because...
Sophomore Louis Caputo, after completing an All-Ivy First Team season for the Crimson, continued to wrestle in top form at the 2007 FILA Junior World Team Trials, securing his second straight title at this event...