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Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers discussed Yang??€™s case with Chinese officials when he visited China...
...Shaoping, Yang??€™s lawyer, said yesterday that Yang may begin his hunger strike next week unless he is given a reason why his verdict has been delayed...
Last December, more than 100 Harvard faculty members signed two letters calling for Yang??€™s release. The letters were addressed to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, who was speaking at the Business School that week...
...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...
...officials both at Harvard and in the U.S. government continue to lobby for Yang??€™s release, a verdict is still pending in Yang??€™s case—which went to trial in August. Fu said a hearing that was supposed to be held Nov. 21 has not taken place, and no new date has been...