In the course of building "Learning Curve," the students found sympathy for the elusive authority figures in their lives.
The riot-police tactics encouraged more people to join the students in sympathy, many of them wearing the yellow ribbons which students had adopted as a symbol of their desire for democracy.
But for many thirty- or fortysomething residents of the state capital, about 150 miles north of Manhattan, their student debt is still weighing them down, despite their having aged out of the twentysomething demographic that is the focus of public student debt sympathy.
Despite the sympathy, students seeking financial aid will have to be more organized than in the past (procrastinators beware).
Emissaries from the future, the students immediately expressed sympathy at my one-size-fits-all American cellphone.
At one point, the progressive-minded general secretary, Zhao Ziyang, visited the students to express sympathy, and it seems tantalisingly possible that things might have ended otherwise than they did.
But people don't connect with SRA students out of sympathy; they connect out of admiration.
Almost 90% of the students felt more sympathy towards people who had acquired HIV through blood transfusion, rather than through the use of IV drugs.
Dr. White also lectured at the university's faculty of medicine; he suspected that seven of his most promising students shared his sympathies toward the nascent uprising.
After Mr. Oesterheld, one by one the couple's four daughters, students with leftist sympathies, also disappeared: first Beatriz, 19, after a lunch with her mother on June 19, 1977; then Diana and Estela, and their husbands; then Marina.
