One angry man with nothing to lose can be a fatal danger to tyranny.
[O]n May 12, 2008, he lost what he told TIME was "my own reason for living." His daughter, Guo Hongli, 15, was crushed to death in the collapse of the now infamous Juyuan Middle School, 60 kilometers north of Sichuan's provincial capital Chengdu.
The tragedy of 60,000 dead in Sichuan is compounded by the number of schoolchildren killed in the collapse of their shoddy schools. Since the schools of peasants collapsed and not the better built ones of the well-connected elite, almost all of the bereaved parents have no other children.
Revolutions have started for less.
