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...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 as he punched hole after hole in the prosecution's charges, it seemed Zhao just might walk out of the courtroom a free...
...Chinese Web sites. Three months after Sun's death, the State Council abolished the rules that had allowed police to detain the man in the first place. "The best lawyers have to be media savvy," says Phyllis Chang, an American expert on Chinese legal reform. "It's extremely rare for them to crack anything open without the media...
According to Saúl Roll, a longtime employee at the bookstore, which sells rare books, art, and manuscripts, the Borges drafts are probably the only original copies of the stories in existence. The manuscripts, which have been in the Lame Duck collection for four years, were listed in the store’s catalogue at $450,000 and $500,000, respectively...
...million Price an Auto Union D-Type, a rare 1939 German race car, is expected to sell for at a February auction in Paris $100,000 Amount Adolf Hitler paid to commission the car's design...
...good job mentally to get through that,” Stone said. “They were resilient, which they need to be. We just talked about, ‘You’re never going to feel perfect, it’s going to be a rare occasion when you do,’ and so we battled through...