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...jaded senior, Wagner still speaks of Harvard as if she were a star-struck freshman. Wagner says that coming from a graduating class of 60 in Virginia, people told her that the days of “being the big fish in a little pond” were over. But, she says, “the great thing about a bigger pond is that you can see all the ways in which people are wonderful.” Wagner says that the kid she sees sleeping in class, for example, could be “starting a neo-post-modernist...
SENTENCED TO DEATH. JOHN ALLEN MUHAMMAD, 42, after being found guilty on two counts of capital murder (one conviction was under a new state antiterrorism law) in the first trial resulting from last fall's D.C.-area sniper killings that left 10 dead; in Virginia Beach...
...DIED. HAL WALKER, 70, first African-American correspondent for CBS News; in Reston, Virginia. Hired by cbs in 1963, Walker covered the riots after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the funeral of Robert F. Kennedy and the Iranian hostage crisis...
...officials may now be regretting their efforts on Gao's behalf. In a Virginia federal court last week, she pleaded guilty to illegally exporting to China hardened microprocessors, which have military applications. Gao admitted to using a number of front companies and an assumed name ("Gail Heights") to buy 80 chips from a Massachusetts supplier, which she then sold to the Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology, one of the top designers of radar systems for China's military. Under her plea agreement, Gao agreed to forfeit $505,000 she earned in the sales and was convicted of tax evasion...
...official at the U.S. Attorney's office in Virginia, which prosecuted Gao, told TIME that Gao hadn't violated any espionage law. In a statement published in Chinese, Gao denied that she ever spied for Taiwan or China. "I never planned to do anything to support the Chinese government and never thought of harming the U.S. government," she wrote, adding bizarrely that her "dream" was to host a radio talk show in China. Genuine human-rights activists find a lesson in the scandal. Says Xiao Qiang, the former executive director of New York-based Human Rights in China, which lobbied...