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...first great flowering of his career, in the 1950s and '60s, John Cheever was, to all appearances, the crown prince of normality. The wife and three children, the faithful retrievers, the rambling old house in Ossining, N.Y. - in all its outward signs, his life was commensurate with his role as the man who was, with John Updike, the esteemed chronicler of the postwar suburbs. But if you came to his fiction expecting sunlit scenes of American life, you were mistaken. Though his work was shot through with the beauty and abundance of the world, of suburban "nights where kings...
...court to face corruption charges that could result in a life sentence. Chen is accused of taking $9 million dollars in personal kickbacks on a state-sanctioned land deal, embezzling over $3 million from a state fund and laundering millions to overseas accounts. Chen has already admitted his wife wired $20 million in leftover campaign funds overseas, but he insists his case is one of political persecution by the new Kuomintang (KMT) administration, which has been forging closer ties with China since coming into power last...
Rumpole's main locus in quo is the "Bailey" - that is, the Old Bailey, London's Central Criminal Court, where he always defends, never prosecutes. Most days, Rumpole leaves the mansion flat (25b Froxbury Court) that he shares with his wife Hilda (known to him as She Who Must Be Obeyed). It is allegedly one of the clifflike Victorian blocks that line Gloucester Road in west London (you'll look for it in vain). He takes the tube to Temple by the Thames River. It's just a short stroll through Temple Gardens to his chambers in the Inner Temple...
...been in and out of detention for several years and whose latest five-year sentence for "subversion" had been suspended, disappeared once again in early February after what was apparently a first-hand account of his jailing and torture by security forces appeared on the internet. His wife, two children and sister - all of whom have also allegedly been subject to physical and mental abuse by police - were smuggled out of the country in early March, and are now in the United States. In a related development, a Beijing law firm known for defending dissidents and others seeking redress from...
...Married with three children. His wife, self-made millionaire Therese Rein, started a large employment agency and is the first Prime Minister's wife to remain in the workforce and keep her maiden name...