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...Harvard official has said that the University again raised concerns about the case with Chinese officials in the days leading up to Wen??s visit...
...Wen??s Dec. 10 speech at Harvard Business School focused on economic development...
...transgression? At Wen??s address, Howard, who is co-president of Students for a Free Tibet, unfurled a Tibetan flag and interrupted the Premier, yelling out, “Tibet belongs to the Tibetan people!” After being asked to return to her seat, she replied: “People in Tibet cannot speak so we must speak for them...
...following Wen??s speech, not one of the three questioners raised the subject of Yang’s incarceration. (I can only hope President Summers did privately.) Nor, for that matter, did a single one press Wen on any Chinese human-rights violations at all. It was left to Howard to remind us, if only fleetingly, that China is not a normal state, and its government is not necessarily worthy of our deference...
...interrupting Wen??s speech to remind the premier—and us all—of Beijing’s unspeakable crimes in Tibet, Howard courageously did her small part to further that goal. The Ad Board should keep that in mind tomorrow when it convenes to decide her punishment...