Twenty years. What is hardest to remember is not that a powerful, nuclear-armed state felt so threatened by its own people that it used armor to crush dissent. Hell, the tanks would roll in central Moscow two years later. It is that at the time, it seemed so inevitable that the students would win.
Archive for June 4th, 2009
Heavenly Peace
Posted in China, Foreigners, North Korea, Politics on June 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Ambition
Posted in Inspirational, Miscellaneous, Movies on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Over at the Idea Locker, Dodson asks whether “ambitious” is a compliment or an insult, and quotes Lyndon Johnson: Ambition is what makes a creature of a man. There are two models of success: James Bond and John McLane.
