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...kept an extremely low profile. And if history can offer any guide, that is a tactic his siblings would be well advised to mimic. During the last major power shift in China, Mao Zedong's family plummeted from privilege. His daughter was retired into obscurity, his nephew was thrown into jail, and his wife Jiang Qing, implacable enemy of Deng, was arrested, tried and convicted of treason for her role as ringleader of the Gang of Four in the brutal Cultural Revolution. She spent 13 years in prison, where she committed suicide...
...play. "Sure Thing" tracks all the possible turns and twists a conversation between a man and a woman can take. Every time the two strangers, Bill (Scott Brown '98) and Betty (Jessica Jackson '98), complete an awkward bit of conversation, a bell rings. Instantly, they find themselves thrown back a moment in time--only to try the interaction again...
...final club event, a freshman was given a great deal of hard liquor. When he became too drunk, he was thrown out of the club. He passed out on the street, and was found by an acquaintance (another student), who half-carried him back to the Yard. Once in the Yard, the drunken student tried to attack his acquaintance...
...alarm of his onboard collision-avoidance system), one of the jets (flown by a male pilot) apparently hugged the airliner's tail for two minutes, while his female partner loitered farther away. Among the 84 people onboard, two flight attendants and a passenger were slightly hurt when they were thrown to the floor during the 727's evasive maneuvers, in which the pilot made sharp, 4,000-ft. changes in altitude. According to a Pentagon official who has reviewed the radar tracks, the 727's moves seemed to be mimicked by the F-16 following closely behind. While the commercial...
...warning. I didn't know what it would be like," she said. "No one's ever thrown me an entire day before...