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...month after the Athens Olympics, Hong Kong entertainment agency Emperor Entertainment Group offered Tian over $1.68 million to join the firm as an athlete-entertainer. Tian shot several television commercials, earning $140,000 in just two months' work, local media reports say. He and his then girlfriend, Guo Jingjing, also a world diving champion, became a celebrity couple, making regular appearances in gossip magazines and television. It was a revelation for the sheltered Tian, who had been so dependent on his sports handlers that he didn't know how to order food in a restaurant until...
...courts have been strengthened and professionalized. But activist lawyers who try to take advantage of these developments still face enormous obstacles. Many courts simply refuse to take certain cases. "If the subject is sensitive or new, most judges will just decide they don't want the hassle," says Guo Jianmei, founder of the Peking University Center for Women's Law and Legal Services, one of China's first legal-aid NGOs. Even when they do take such cases, judges are often instructed how to rule by Communist Party-controlled supervisory organs called politics and law committees, or simply pressured...
...Still, it's hard to find lawyers involved in public-interest work who aren't optimistic about the long term. They believe that even under the current system incremental progress toward the protection of rights is possible. "Sometimes I feel like I'm storming an impregnable fortress," says Guo, the women's advocate. "But we have had a few concrete victories." Last year, Guo and her colleagues successfully lobbied to eliminate a regulation forbidding female graduate students from becoming pregnant. "We can't change everything overnight," says scholar Teng Biao. "But even the leaders recognize they must reform the system...
...young artist in the the southern Chinese city of Quanzhou, Cai Guo-Qiang liked the effects he got by lighting gunpowder poured on a canvas, a process that tended to set his canvases on fire. He has been playing with fire--and ephemeral art forms--ever since. His art today draws on a wide range of disciplines (from feng shui to astrophysics) and materials (from vending machines to roller coasters). But gunpowder--the medium that brought him international fame--remains one of his favorites...
...Carmelites. Through Feb. 19. Presented by Dunster House Opera Society. Dunster House Dining Hall. Tickets available at Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $20 general; $8 students; $7 Dunster residents.Doublehung: Exhibitions I & II. Exhibition I through Feb. 11; Exhibition II through Feb. 24. Carpenter Center. Free.Quantum Grids: Cai Guo-Qiang, Yayoi Kusama, Sol LeWitt, and Fred Tomaselli. Through April 16. Carpenter Center. Free.“To Delight the Eye”: French Drawings and Paintings from the Collection of Charles E. Dunlap. Through Mar. 12. Fogg Museum.To Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection...