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...course, China's news media, which are still subject to Party control, are often unable to cover the most sensitive cases. One story that has been reported extensively in the foreign press but that has remained off limits to journalists in China is the case of Chen Guangcheng, a blind legal activist detained by police last year after he tried to help victims of a forced-abortion campaign sue their local government. Convicted in August of destroying property and "organizing a mob to block traffic," Chen was sentenced to four years in prison. A higher court ordered a retrial...
...Drouot, for example, is a place where you see people selling their estate, and when they do, you see really their whole life. It's not just an auction house with glamour sales of famous paintings." Among his other usual haunts: a gardening bookshop, a restaurant for the blind and a very reliable Parisian shirtmaker. Here's a peek inside the little black book of one of fashion's greatest footwear designers...
Dans le Noir, 51 rue Quincampoix (33-1-42-77-98-04). A fascinating place where you eat in the dark and you experience what it is like to be blind. The food is very good...
...confessions are short and straightforward: “I don’t really like blind people.” “I hate Steinbeck.” “I adore bars, alcohol, and tobacco.” “I adore the secret corridors, libraries that open without noise, stairs that lead nowhere.” “I like snakes, and especially rats...
Golden said that schools like Harvard should live up to their social responsibility and become truly “wealth-blind...