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...waves visitors in with a smile. That smiling face, Hu says, is the one that Beijing is presenting to the outside world. But within China, he says, conditions are worse than ever. "It's a policy of 'soft to the outside, strict within,'" says Hu. He recently hosted the wife of blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng, who is serving a four-year sentence ostensibly for disrupting traffic but almost certainly because of the embarrassment he caused the government of Shandong province by publicizing cases of forced sterilizations and abortions by family-planning officials. After escaping from house arrest in Shandong, Yuan...
...nation's first "hip-hop mayor" and Kilpatrick, now 37, did not try to avoid a life of excess. His first inauguration was marked with "club crawls" (he said they were intended to galvanize Detroit's disaffected youth); he wore a diamond-studded earring and flashy suits; his wife got use of a Lincoln Navigator that was leased for $25,000 by the police department. The two Detroit cops then charged Kilpatrick's bodyguards with abusing overtime and failing to report accidents involving city vehicles. Overtime abuse was never proven, and an accident report was found. Nevertheless, the cops claimed...
...included a federal drug raid on Simpson's home in 2001, a ticket for speeding in a manatee zone in 2002, a domestic violence call to his residence in 2003, and his participation last year in the writing of a fictional account of the murders of his former wife Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman...
While Galanter gets most ink from his representation of Simpson, the Philadelphia native actually started out as a state prosecutor in Florida. Galanter honed his trial skills at the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office under Janet Reno. That's also where he met his wife, Elyse. She was a court reporter in former Judge Tom Scott's courtroom and that's where Galanter had been assigned as well. They've been together 21 years, married for eight...
During several trips to Iraq, I've met a soldier who spent only seven months at home between year-long deployments, and several soldiers who worry that their young children are growing up without them. Constant deployments are especially difficult for families in which both the husband and the wife are soldiers. If both deploy, it's possible they could go years without living at home as a family...