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Published On: Mar 07, 2006 03:02 PM
Total entries in this category: 51
Published On: Mar 07, 2006 03:02 PM
Captured!
After 21 days on the run, Ma Jiajue, the student
accused of beating four of his Yunnan University classmates to death,
has been nabbed.
This has been the number one topic of conversation
today. We got the news at 7:30 AM on the bus to school, exactly 12 hours after
he was arrested on Hainan island, more than 1000 kilometers
away.
For the first time since we've been here, I see people everywhere reading newspapers. The tabloids are covered with splashy full color photo montages of Ma and the men who captured him. When I tried to get a copy of the paper as a souvenir (about all I could read of the news was his name) every newsstand was sold out.
Finally, late in the afternoon, I began to see students clumped together reading papers, walking down from the gate of the university. I tracked back in the opposite direction towards the source, and began to hear a recorded announcement coming from a hand-held bull horn. I didn't understand all the words, but "Ma Jiajue" was prominent among them.
There at the school bus stop, two men crouched on the pavement assembling newspaper sections and selling them as fast as they could. For one kuai, I got an assortment of three papers, each with its own treatment of the story.
I'm still trying to figure out what exactly happened, but in the meantime, I'm enjoying the graphics.
For the first time since we've been here, I see people everywhere reading newspapers. The tabloids are covered with splashy full color photo montages of Ma and the men who captured him. When I tried to get a copy of the paper as a souvenir (about all I could read of the news was his name) every newsstand was sold out.
Finally, late in the afternoon, I began to see students clumped together reading papers, walking down from the gate of the university. I tracked back in the opposite direction towards the source, and began to hear a recorded announcement coming from a hand-held bull horn. I didn't understand all the words, but "Ma Jiajue" was prominent among them.
There at the school bus stop, two men crouched on the pavement assembling newspaper sections and selling them as fast as they could. For one kuai, I got an assortment of three papers, each with its own treatment of the story.
I'm still trying to figure out what exactly happened, but in the meantime, I'm enjoying the graphics.
Posted: Tue - March 16, 2004 at 03:32 AM