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...They filed complaints about his unlawful detention with officials at various levels of government. They kept the foreign media informed. They also tried, on a fairly regular basis, to meet with their client. They often failed - on at least one occasion, badly. In October when three of the lawyers - Xu Zhiyong, Li Subin and Li Fangping - tried to visit Chen's house, a group of unidentified men physically prevented Chen from coming outside, and punched him in the mouth. Later in the day, a similar gang surrounded his lawyers, kicked them and punched them, and then dragged them...
...Xu, in particular, has made a career out of the kind of optimism that accompanies a strong sense of justice. Just after earning his Ph.D. at Beijing Daxue Law School, in 2003 he successfully petitioned Beijing to end a system of detention that allowed police to lock people up just for traveling outside their registered hometowns. The following year, he won a seat in his district government in Beijing, in one of the few openly contested elections in the country. In addition to teaching constitutional law, he has been a visiting scholar at Yale, and a defender of peasants...
...Even in the United States, which has 200 years of democratic history, most of its Presidents were only of mediocre caliber." XU CHONGDE, Chinese constitutional-law expert, on why Hong Kong doesn't need universal suffrage...
...took the plunge and worked their way through the humorous 30-question exam. They trusted the Harvard network with their deepest thoughts on topics such as the great River-Quad debate and their personal preferences for certain members of Snow White’s team of seven admirers. Wenxin Xu ’09, a Biochemical Sciences concentrator in Wigglesworth Hall, wrote in an e-mail that though he thinks it would be “a lot to ask” for a multiple choice survey to unite soulmates, the quiz was entertaining enough in itself to be worth...
...BOBBY X. XU ’08 of Boothwyn, Pa. and Kirkland House Associate Design Chair...