1 | The use of torture must disgust any civilized person. | |
2 | Liu embodied a class despised by Mao, who came to power on the back of a promise to give land back to the peasants. | |
3 | Medicine men, musicians and handicraftsmen are despised by the gentlemen. How strange it is that gentlemen are less wise than these people! | |
4 | Your parents, for example, may value ambition and a high-power career, but it may not be what you want. | |
5 | But this week, with Mr Obama bunkered on Martha' s Vineyard, an ugly past roared into the present. |