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...PSLM members] were waiting for Summers to come out [of Massachusetts Hall], because we had labor demands to give him—a petition and a Christmas card or something. He just walked out and he hadn’t been expecting us, because normally he is flanked by bodyguards or assistant deans—call them what you will. He was totally caught off guard and froze like a fucking deer in the headlights. He didn’t know what to do and he just ran, ran the other way. It was amazing. It made me realize that...
...School researcher Christina Fu, and their two young children, Aaron and Anita, spent over an hour outside the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., trying to persuade a faceless security guard—through locked doors, closed curtains and a small speaker—to accept a hand-drawn birthday card to deliver to him in prison. Their quest ended in vain. For the Yang family, this experience was a sad illustration of the opaque approach that the Chinese authorities have taken in his case...
...been assembled the night before, slipped into the oven that morning and kept chilled under a cooling fan until cook mode kicked in at 6 p.m.--is sitting in warm mode, ready to serve. Stuart is still clutching the Web tablet, monitoring the final minutes of a baseball-card auction on eBay and blocking traffic to the dining room. While his parents work to pry him loose ("Enough already!" his dad prods), I wonder if by acquiring all these gadgets, the Yacobians have simply replaced one kind of domestic chaos with another. But then Stuart sits down, Paige says grace...
What was extraordinary was how Keys, 22, handled herself following the publicity maelstrom. After her Grammy-night triumph--she missed out on Album of the Year but got a bouquet from fellow Album losers U2 with a card that said, "We're Fallin' for U2"; "It was very cute," says Keys--she went home and splurged on a dream apartment in Queens. If you are unfamiliar with the social inferences of New York City geography, a celebrity buying a dream home in Queens is like an heiress shopping for a necklace at Zales. "It's a cool part of Queens...
...Replaying the China card may not be enough to get Chen elected again, however. In 2000, the opposition was divided. For the coming election, the KMT and the other major opposition group, the People First Party, are fielding a joint candidate, KMT chairman Lien Chan, so as not to split the vote. The opposition has attacked Chen's administrative performance, blaming frequent policy flip-flops in the past few years for having aggravated Taiwan's poor economy. Still, by harping on the referendum issue, Chen has managed to achieve two key election objectives: telegraphing to his hard-core supporters...