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Watching the lawyer Chen Bulei argue his case, it was easy to forget that he was almost certain to lose. Pacing confidently before a packed courtroom in the northeastern Chinese city of Haicheng earlier this year, he scored rhetorical points so 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...
...have bad news for you. Those trips you had planned in January--forget 'em. We will be working almost every day in January, starting with the 4th." STENY HOYER, Maryland Democrat who will become the House majority leader, telling reporters about the new five-day work schedule for members of the House of Representatives...
...PHOTOGRAPHY NOW SUSAN BRIGHT Forget twilit still lifes and peachy nudes. The photography in Bright's lively survey of 80 artists who work with cameras has more to do with staged scenes of suburban anxiety, mock heroic tableaux of heavily armed children and the determined contemplation of whatever is enigmatic or unnerving. (There are a fair number of nudes, though none you would think to call peachy.) Thanks to Bright, you also get to enjoy the sight of Kate Moss, above, in a picture by the photo-collaborators Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, holding a lit cigarette between her toes...
...here's my modest proposal for holiday reform. Forget the PlayStations, the Barbie-mobiles, the catalogs and camp-outs in Wal-Mart parking lots. Give, if you will, to the needy, and let the pine trees live. Instead, rent the local V.F.W. hall or a hotel ballroom, deck it with boughs of holly, and invite the entire town for a vast blowout. O.K., it won't bring world peace. But if we have this primordial capacity for collective...
...holding (drumroll, please) office hours! The biggest man on campus will receive lowly Harvard affiliates on a first-come, first-serve basis this Monday, Dec. 11 from 3:30 to 5 p.m in Mass. Hall. Get there at 2:30 to sign-up, and don’t forget your Harvard ID—no randos allowed...