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...Shakespeare and Stoppard on the West End (often with big-name U.S. stars in the cast) seem to be reveling in the worst of the U.S. In the current hit revival of David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Matthew Perry and Hank Azaria leave all their charm at passport control as they add an extra layer of bile to Mamet's caustic portrait of the battle of the sexes in the Midwestern heartland...
...trial of Boston-based Chinese dissident Yang Jianli - which opens in Beijing Monday - may hint at the direction the new communist leadership will take on human-rights issues. Yang has been held in virtual isolation since he was arrested 15 months ago for entering the country on a false passport, and was denied access to a lawyer and family members for nearly a year. Blacklisted as a result of his activism during the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising, Yang settled in the U.S. His wife says he returned to China to see firsthand how the country has changed. But last month...
Yang, a graduate of the Kennedy School of Government, was seized in April 2002 after entering China using another person’s passport. His trial on charges of espionage and visa violations is expected to start by the first week of August...
...Charged. Yang Jianli, 39, scholar and pro-democracy activist arrested last April while allegedly trying to use someone else's passport to board a plane in Kunming, China; with espionage and entering the country illegally; in Beijing. Yang, a Chinese citizen with permanent U.S. residency, entered China to research labor unrest in the northeast...
Yang, who is president of the Foundation for China in the 21st Century, was visiting China with another person’s passport in April 2002 when he was seized by the authorities while trying to board a plane. Until Tuesday’s meeting, no reliable proof of Yang’s safety had emerged...