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...China's leaders, including President Hu Jintao, speak often of the importance of "administering the country according to law." The legal profession and legal education have mushroomed; China's government has enacted thousands of new laws; and major institutions like the legislatures and the 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...
...advice, the four stressed the importance of passion in an activity. “Trust in your abilities,” Green said. “If your passion and conviction are there, everything else can be learned.” After the students spoke, a panel of professionals offered words of wisdom. The speakers emphasized that students must build relationships and gain practical experience to become leaders. “Step out of your comfort shell, make your connections, and it will come back to you full-circle,” said Nancy Carmichael, president of Boston Women?...
Hemel’s friends say that there is no one more deserving of the scholarship. “He has genuine passion like I have never seen and his kindness continues to amaze me,” wrote roommate Scoop A. Wasserstein ’07 in e-mail...
DIED. Bebe Moore Campbell, 56, commentator, essayist and author whose celebrated novels, including Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, examined America's race and class divides and opened a window into the lives of upwardly mobile blacks; of brain cancer; in Los Angeles. Literature left an early mark on Campbell...
Gerald M. Boyd, the first black managing editor and metropolitan editor at The New York Times, died last week in Manhattan at the age of 56. Boyd, a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 1980-1981, was the youngest journalist to receive the fellowship at the time. Boyd, who led Pulitzer...