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But May 4 is too important to ignore or suppress, so Chinese President Xi Jinping had to commemorate the occasion, somewhat diffidently, by calling for “Chinese youth of the new era” to be “brave in their struggles” and live up to “the spirit of May 4.”Even as he said this, student dissidents at Peking University were being arrested for expressing subversive ideas that might upset the official celebrations.

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I love finding, wearing, and more recently, photographing and blogging a different, colorful, crazy outfit for every single occasion.

It's a very rare occasion that you get to actually witness an iceberg rolling.

On one particular occasion, one of the guards threw a grenade into the prisoners' lavatory while it was full of prisoners.

And the reason I'm looking a little bit perplexed in this photograph is I was somewhat frightened, and I was too afraid on this occasion to ask him, having run for an hour through the desert and taken refuge in this house, why he had turned up and wanted to have his photograph taken with me.

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