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Lorelei Patel
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Join date: 22 Feb 2004
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08-17-2006 00:05
 The world needs more like this one. Anyone know what's happened to him? Last I heard, he'd "disappeared."
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Lorelei Patel
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08-17-2006 00:06
Hah, meant to post that to Sandbox. Someone kindly kick 'er over?
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Fenrir Reitveld
Crazy? Don't mind if I do
Join date: 20 Apr 2005
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08-17-2006 00:08
I step in front of very dangerous objects all the time in SL. It's because I can't see them or they're just gray blobs...
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Cybin Monde
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Join date: 27 Jan 2004
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08-17-2006 00:16
as (rightfully) requested, this has been moved from General to The Sandbox.
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Coyote Momiji
Pintsized Plutonium
Join date: 13 Aug 2006
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08-17-2006 00:38
From wikipedia:
"Little is publicly known of the man's identity. Shortly after the incident, British tabloid the Sunday Express named him as Wang Weilin, a 19-year-old student; however, the veracity of this claim is dubious.
There are several conflicting stories about what happened to him after the demonstration. In a speech to the President's Club in 1999, Bruce Herschensohn — former deputy special assistant to President of the United States Richard Nixon — reported that he was executed 14 days later; other sources say he was killed by firing squad a few months after the Tiananmen Square protests. In Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now, Jan Wong writes that the man is still alive and in hiding in mainland China.
An eyewitness account of the event published in October 2005 by Charlie Cole, a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine at the time, states that the man was arrested on the spot by the Public Security Bureau.
The People's Republic of China government made few statements about the incident or the person involved. In a 1990 interview with Barbara Walters, then-Communist Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin was asked what became of the man. Jiang replied "I think never killed [sic]."
A recent article in the Hong Kong Apple Daily states that Wang is now residing in Taiwan."
I hope he is well.
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Lorelei Patel
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Join date: 22 Feb 2004
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08-17-2006 00:40
That went down on the day of my high school graduation. I'll never forget that image.
Seriously, if I ever have a tenth of the courage of someone like that, life will have been worthwhile.
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Billybob Goodliffe
NINJA WIZARDS!
Join date: 22 Dec 2005
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08-17-2006 04:33
hmm brave or stupid? you decide 
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Coyote Momiji
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08-17-2006 05:04
From: Billybob Goodliffe hmm brave or stupid? you decide Brave. |