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...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. Police in Haicheng had arrested Zhao five months earlier after he took part in a demonstration with about 100 other laid-off employees of the Aihai Talc Company to demand benefits they claim the firm had illegally withheld for nearly eight years. It is exceedingly rare for defendants charged with political crimes in China to escape conviction. But with Chen in his corner, brandishing a pocket-sized copy of China's criminal code...
...Brad Pitt languishing on an orange bedspread--but there are informal family shots as well, like one of her brother and father, below, and many pictures of her longtime beloved, the writer Susan Sontag, even as the ailing Sontag ventures toward death. Leibovitz's unflinching final portrait of her, laid out just after she died, is unforgettable...
...called on institutions to enact “a continuous process of self-scrutiny and improvement.” In a room filled with over 700 educators, who are typically the ones fielding classroom questions, Bok looked out during the question-and-answer session to a crowd of hands laid on laps—and not in the air. “This is your chance to put the speaker in his place,” joked the president of the New England association, Philip E. Austin. Austin, also the president of the University of Connecticut, told The Crimson...
Merve Yesilada, 22, who is working on a soon-to-open gallery and design store, Haaz, with interiors by Sami Hayek (brother of Hollywood's Salma) was having breakfast at the laid-back Assk caf, right on the waterfront, with her friend Lerna Tutunciyan, 29, who works as a production assistant. Talk turned to head scarves, a particularly thorny issue given Turkish history. (While the traditional male Islamic headgear, the fez, was banned by law in 1925, the head scarf had simply fallen out of use.) Yesilada, who loves to mix Marc Jacobs and Gucci with TopShop pieces, thinks that...
...linked via expensive wiring, if at all. Installing new sensors has traditionally called for retrofitting a factory with new wiring whose installation can cost 10 times what the measurement gauge itself does. Many new devices can't be wired into a central system because of the way factories are laid out, so data are often gathered by someone walking around with a clipboard...