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...subversion. Arrests like these have sparked debate among lawyers about tactics. Teng Biao, a lecturer at the China University of Political Science and Law, says Gao's willingness to push the envelope has widened the space "for other more moderate lawyers to become more vocal." But Mo Shaoping, a veteran defense lawyer, says Gao's political activities-such as hunger striking and signing petitions-may have spooked the authorities into tightening restrictions. Like many in the field, Mo is both a philosophical and tactical gradualist. "If you want to cook a frog, you can't just throw it into boiling...
Summing up their strategy, Mike Medavoy, a veteran producer involved with the Weinsteins on two projects, says, "They probably learned a few lessons from their time at Disney. No. 1: it's nice to have a big banker in back of you. No. 2: this business is filled with mistakes, and margins are shrinking, so you have to be more careful than ever before. And No. 3: it's good to hedge your bets...
...League dual meets, American University brushed back the favored Crimson 26-13. Before Harvard (0-1), ranked No. 22 in the country at the start of the day, faced the Eagles (2-4) in Washington, D.C. in its first dual meet of the season, the team had already blended veteran dominance with its considerable freshman talent in several tournament successes. Yesterday, the Crimson struggled through a sluggish performance in the nation’s capital. “I don’t think we wrestled stupid,” tri-captain Max Meltzer said. “We just...
Amanda suffers from acute culture shock before Graham (a smoldering and sensitive Jude Law) takes her frolicking in the English countryside. Iris does water aerobics with an old Hollywood screenwriter, Arthur Abbott (veteran actor Eli Wallach, “Mystic River”), whose creaky wisdom leads her to Miles (Jack Black, playing against type), a cultured score-composer who pens her a melody using “only the good notes...
...serious mathematicians and the curious hoping for a quick glimpse of notoriety. This tremendous turnout is an annual phenomenon. “The first day each year, all the math kids who understand what’s going on are scared,” says Math 55 veteran Scott D. Kominers ’09, “and all the non-math kids who don’t laugh, because they think the class is so hard it’s overkill...