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...really remember is a blur of punches and that I was thrown against the wall,” said Garcia. “And then the police came...
...Galo Garcia, and since I first arrived at Harvard in the fall of 2001, I have considered the campus a comfortable and safe place to live. As I was being punched and thrown against a wall Friday night, these feelings were compromised. On our way to the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, and Transsexual Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) “Inappropriate” dance, I had my arm around one of my male friends...
...shocked and frozen while I was thrown against a wall and punched repeatedly. Luckily, my friend called the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) and officers arrived in under a minute. I have cuts, bruises, and lumps on my chest, my back is sore, and a large area of my head is swollen and throbbing painfully. The day after, as I sat the holding ice packs to my head and popping ibuprofen every four hours to dull the pain, I felt completely disconnected—as if I were watching myself on a theater-sized screen...
...trip at the last minute. But the phoniness of that rapprochement was on display at Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek International Airport the morning Lien boarded the plane. Hundreds of pro-independence supporters, accusing Lien of "selling out Taiwan," clashed with his well-wishers. Fists, stones and eggs were thrown. Old men were beaten to the ground. One man was struck with a nunchaku, the martial-arts fighting weapon. Afterward, tough-talking Vice President Annette Lu described the incident as "unfortunate," but said she wasn't too displeased about the international news coverage?because it emphasized that Taiwan...
...Such talk is alarming American officials who say that purging former regime members from government and army service would set back efforts to include disaffected Sunnis in the political process and bleed the insurgency of military talent. They worry that the unemployed officers will be thrown into the arms of an insurgency they were hired to fight and that a precedent would be set for purging the army's command ranks whenever power changes in Baghdad...