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...ideals of socialism and set for a brilliant career in the People's Republic of China. When he was purged from the Communist Party in 1957 for writing about corruption and banished to a poor mountain village, he suddenly found that there were "two diametrically opposed kinds of truth" in China. The "longings of the peasants" formed one kind, the "policies of the higher-ups" another. The rest of Liu's life?his sufferings as well as his remarkable achievements?followed from his choice to side with the first kind of truth. Many Chinese saw a widening gap between...
...cathartic effect of Liu's writing brought him two huge waves of popularity, once in 1956 and again in the early 1980s. But his truth-telling cost him dearly. He lived 22 of his 80 years (1957-1979) in domestic exile, and another 17 years (1988-2005) in forced exile abroad. Chinese leaders ignored his requests to come home during his waning years. Why did he opt for such a life? In a 1979 speech, Liu said, "I have awoken to a hard fact: in today's China, if one speaks or writes and does not incur somebody's opposition...
...spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, Qin Gang, announced that the government had nothing to say about him or his requests to return to China. "We have already reached our conclusions about him." Those conclusions, ironically, only strengthen Liu's legacy. They show that "two kinds of truth" are still with...
...Such sobriety seems beyond the reach of most Democrats. They make fools of themselves even when they speak the truth. The party chairman, Howard Dean, was not inaccurate when he said, "The idea that we are going to win this war ... is just plain wrong." If Dean had added the word militarily, most generals would agree with him. The trouble is, Dean-as always-seemed downright gleeful about the bad news. He seemed to be rooting for defeat. More subtle but no less feckless is the curious case of John Kerry, who has been calling for the withdrawal...
...funding on compliance with military recruitment, the Pentagon makes federal funding seem like a reward. This perpetrates the image of federal grants as a one-sided benefit—that Harvard receives a large sum of taxpayer money essentially for free. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. Harvard indeed receives from the government—to the tune of over $400 million a year—but most of those funds go to the Medical School. This money is then used to fund research into areas like Alzheimer’s disease, cancer genetics, and counter-bioterrorism...