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Former Kennedy School of Government (KSG) student and pro-democracy activist Yang Jianli, imprisoned in China on espionage charges since April 2002, has decided to delay a hunger strike he intended to start last Wednesday...
Yang, who stood trial in August, had intended to go on a hunger strike to protest his delayed verdict, which was due Dec. 1 of last year...
...Shaoping, Yang’s lawyer, said yesterday that Yang may begin his hunger strike next week unless he is given a reason why his verdict has been delayed...
...Zahara (Little, Brown; 353 pages) begins in 1815 when Riley, on his way back from a routine trading voyage--the proverbial three-hour tour--got lost near the Canary Islands and ran aground in what is now southern Morocco. He and his crew suffered horrifying extremes of exposure, hunger and thirst (King is especially good on the gruesome physiology of dehydration) and were eventually taken as slaves by the Bou Sbaa, a tribe of nomadic Arabs who scratched out a perilous living in the Sahara, trading and feuding and drinking surprising amounts of camel urine. Seen through Riley's eyes...
Knapp spoke of her sister’s hunger as an “agent of denial” for family love she felt was withheld in childhood, while Harold said her multi-ethnic background led to painful schoolyard taunts...