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...time of Meiping's interrogation; it would have been almost impossible for her to jump to her death. Cheng was determined to learn more, though friends warned her that she was under surveillance and in great danger. Police agents claiming to be Meiping's friends came to visit Cheng at odd hours and urged her to seek revenge. Suspecting a trap, she refused. Groups of schoolchildren suddenly began harassing her in the street, shouting, ''Spy! Imperialist spy!'' She narrowly escaped death when a mysterious bicyclist deliberately knocked her down in the path of an oncoming bus. Her health slowly improved...
...then held a ''struggle'' meeting to compel her to confess her ''love for Western music.'' She was found dead the next day, seated by her piano, with the gas turned on. The note she left said, ''I did my best for my students.'' The day after Li Zhen's visit, I read in the newspaper that on Aug. 18 Mao had reviewed the first contingent of Red Guards in Peking and given them his blessing. In the days afterward, the Red Guards in Shanghai took over the streets. They debated whether to reverse the system of traffic lights, as they...
...the kind of magically spontaneous moment that happens all too rarely in the tightly scripted world of a big-time presidential campaign. In the first of what is going to be hundreds of packed Iowa living rooms that Hillary Clinton will visit over the next year, Dale Todd stepped from the crowd and introduced his son Adam, a 7-year-old scamp in a red sweater vest, who suffers from a tricky form of epilepsy that has defied every one of the half a dozen medications he has tried. The former Cedar Rapids city councilman told his neighbors that Clinton...
EMMANUEL LIGGONS, 12, of Harlem, about Prince Charles, who played basketball with Liggons and his classmates during a visit to New York City with wife Camilla, part of a U.S. tour that also included a stop at the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia...
...days after returning to Washington from her first campaign visit to Iowa last weekend, former First Lady and Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton sat down for an interview with TIME's Karen Tumulty. Excerpts from their conversation...