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Jiang Guohua, the Communist Party boss of Mianzhu city, Sichuan province, kneels on the ground before angry parents whose children were killed by school collapses in the earthquake, pleading with them to stop their protest march
Shiho Fukada / New York Times / Redux

Sunday, May 25, 2008
Mercy
Jiang Guohua, the Communist Party boss of Mianzhu city, Sichuan province, kneels on the ground before angry parents whose children were killed by school collapses in the earthquake, pleading with them to stop their protest march.