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...been drawn into a bigger one. In an essay called "Why Have I Worn a Bulletproof Vest for Six Years?" he accused fellow officials in Lianjiang of corruption. The article appeared on a website run by the Party's flagship People's Daily and became a must-read among knowledgeable Chinese?even though it was wiped off the Internet within 24 hours and Chinese media were barred from covering the case. The misconduct Huang alleges is almost banal?he says local officials deprived residents of their homes and manipulated land prices. What makes the case sensational is the rare dragon...
...provincial capital created their own team to investigate his allegations. But the implicit tension between growth and fighting graft was visible when the team was told to "strike a balance between the struggle against corruption and economic development," according to documents released by the city to rebut Huang's essay. In the event, the committee ruled that the case was an "economic dispute" rather than corruption and that construction should continue. After lobbying against the ruling for two years, Huang contacted the People's Daily website, which posted his essay after dispatching reporters to interview him. The essay blamed leaders...
...night that Huang posted his essay, Fuzhou's Party secretary called an emergency meeting and declared that Huang had made "serious mistakes," according to an official rebuttal posted on the city's website. The next day, Fuzhou investigators drove to meet Huang. At day's end, they declared that he had deceived the public by saying he wore a bulletproof vest; everyone they'd talked to, the Fuzhou officials' response said, denied seeing him wear it. A day later, Huang was accused of a "serious violation of organizational discipline." His essay, said the rebuttal, would be "used by hostile forces...
...What Hong Kong Wants Re Anthony Spaeth's essay on Hong Kong's legislative-council elections, in which the development of democracy was a key issue [Sept. 13]: What is the definition of true democracy? If it is universal suffrage, a policy of one man, one vote, then true democracy is not practiced even in the U.S. or Britain. Democracy in U.S. presidential elections stops at the level of the Electoral College, which is empowered to make the final decision. British Prime Minister Tony Blair was put into his present position by members of the Labour Party. Economic affluence...
Meanwhile, Cuomo wrote an application essay for English Czr: Advanced Creative Nonfiction highlighting his philosophical and literary influences (Neil Young, Plato); his love of the professor’s book (“I loved it!”); and his accomplishments (an Expos essay in 1995 called “The Filling,” seven million albums sold...