Chinese dissident Wang Dan addresses fellow students during a demonstration in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, in this May 1989 photo. The characters on Wang's headband translate as "hunger strike." Fifteen years after the bloodshed, the exiled student leaders of China's 1989 pro-democracy protesters are settled abroad as academics and entrepreneurs. But they nurture one with above all - to come home to a new system. Wang Dan, a principal strategist for the protests, spent seven years in prison. Now 35, he is working toward a doctorate at Harvard University with a thesis on Chinese politics and history and the democratic movement in Taiwan. (AP Photo)
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