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...Last year, I got a call on my cellphone while at a cocktail party. Shanghai ladies sipped champagne near me, while the men discussed the city's frenzied property market. Sun Xuede had just been released from jail, four years early. "Hello, English-language journalist," he said, using the name they often called me. "I am out of jail now." I told him I was very glad - and then didn't know what to say next. Filling the silence, Sun commented on the weather in his Shandong village. It was chilly, he said, but not as cold...
...riffs sampled in maybe a thousand songs), to dance (his moves influencing Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson and countless club hoppers and frat boys), to racial consciousness in the '60s (his anthemic ?Say It Loud, I?m Black and I?m Proud?). Others will itemize Brown?s rap sheet and jail time - for larceny as a teenager, then the two police chases (unlike O.J.?s, J.B.?s were naturally high-speed) and the assault complaints lodged by various wives and other women - and ponder the connection, in the life of an performer or pro athlete, between adrenaline-fueled excellence...
Having all coursepacks available online would also be a tremendous step but certainly not an easy one. We could start by just not including material that is already available online. Too many coursepacks include copies of Kennedy’s speeches and "A Letter from a Birmingham Jail." Likewise with books: By all means, put the Federalist Papers on the reading list, but also link to them online where they are available in their entirety. And faculty members should stop requiring the newest edition of a book, and instead just recommend which of the editions are suitable. Introductory statistics...
...giving producers permission to show his face on air. When he complied, they handed him $150 in cash. "The only reason I took the money was the fear that they would show my face on TV anyway with or without my signing," says Walker, who is now out of jail and awaiting his day in court...
...dozens of onlookers (including this TIME reporter), despite the rarity of a criminal trial in which witnesses are called and the defendant actually has a lawyer, two of the three presiding judges slept through Chen's closing argument. A few weeks later, Zhao was sentenced to three years in jail...