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...Jeanne Y. Wei will no longer serve as director of the Medical School's Division of Aging and as the head of the Division of Gerontology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). She will retain her position as an associate professor at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and her clinical and research appointments at BIDMC...
...because both Wei and Wang, who is currently a student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, are beyond the physical reach of the Chinese government, officials threatened their families instead...
...Chinese government's disapproval of the nomination has also affected Wei's family. A spokesperson for Wang in Boston told the Associated Press that Chinese police had detained Wei's brother, Wei Yaotao, although his detention could not be confirmed...
...They simply shouldn't have done it. The first thing to remember is that in China there are drastically different levels of authority, from the hard-lined to the liberal," he said. "I am not surprised by what the police did to [Wei's and Wang's] families. But I also think that there are Chinese people who thought that it was a stupid thing to do. I even think that within the Chinese government there were people who thought this was stupid...
...said he thought both Wei and Wang were worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize nomination. He has had personal contact with Wang since he came to Harvard last year. Bol said that since his first encounter with Wang, he has had the highest respect for the celebrated dissident...