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When Cunningham persisted, shouting "What about Wei Jingsheng?" Vogel repeatedly ordered him to sit down...
...Wei, the longest-serving Chinese political prisoner, was last interviewed by Cunningham before he was arrested again for speaking with foreign reporters and the U.S. assistant secretary of state for human rights, John Shattuck, after Wei was released from prison in 1993, 14 years after his initial 1979 arrest...
...case of hard-core sexual harassment by a professor I would want to see that professor dismissed," says Stanley C. Wei '99. "There are other unusual circumstances like embezzlement of University funds that might call for dismissal. But I think that these provisions already exist in tenure contracts...
...sure professors have done "bad" things in the past, but I don't know for sure that no action was taken against them," Wei says. "I certainly see it as possible that the University might want to keep something like that quiet...
TIME: Americans care a lot about human rights. Can you explain why it is so difficult to release political dissidents like Wei Jingsheng and Wang Dan? How serious a threat are they to your government...