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...deftly that sympathetic onlookers pumped their fists like fans at a sporting event. Chen's client, a 56-year-old talc miner named Zhao Jitian, was on trial for "assembling a mob to disrupt social order"-a politically charged criminal offense often invoked to silence Chinese citizens who band together to air grievances against their employers or the government. Police in Haicheng had arrested Zhao five months earlier after he took part in a demonstration with about 100 other laid-off employees of the Aihai Talc Company to demand benefits they claim the firm had illegally withheld for nearly eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Quest for Justice | 12/11/2006 | See Source »

...plays at weddings and dances, and on one recent job she found herself at the birthday party of a prominent Londoner. She and the rest of the band serenaded guests from the terrace, and after dinner, the sky lit up with fireworks...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Brassy Move | 12/11/2006 | See Source »

After David Lee Roth left Van Halen, upset fans took time to embrace Sammy Hagar. Likely to be more welcoming are Wiggles groupies, partly because some are still potty training. The new Yellow Wiggle, SAM MORAN, replaces the Australian kids' band's lead singer of 15 years, Greg Page, who left due to an illness that kept him from performing standards like Yummy Yummy and Toot Toot. The ubiquitous group has sold more than 15 million CDs and DVDs in the U.S. Van Halen has sold more, but Van Halen fans don't have such grateful mothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 18, 2006 | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

...appears infinitesimal compared to the mountain of a man waiting on Harvard’s new male scout team—6’7 Zach Putchel ’05-’07.Puchtel, the former Crimson tight end turned University of Minnesota basketball starting forward, leads a band of former Harvard JV—or Gopher varsity—team members to serve a new purpose: become the most vaunted scout team Harvard women’s hoops has ever seen.The unit includes freshman forward Alex Ahmed, fellow first year Dave Boswell, and senior big man Jacob Mays...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crossing Over: The Scout Team Ballers | 12/8/2006 | See Source »

...Kendall Square Band, as the set of instruments is called, cost $90,000 to build and consists of three pieces with names befitting their location by MIT: Pythagoras, a series of chimes; Kepler, a ring-shaped gong; and Galileo, a vibrating sheet of metal...

Author: By Gabriel J. Daly and Sonam S. Velani, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: T-Riders Ring the Sound of Science | 12/7/2006 | See Source »

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