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...weeks, China's leaders have told their people that, despite the SARS crisis, life should proceed almost as usual. To the chagrin of human rights watchers, a Liaoning provincial court is indeed conducting business as usual. On May 9, it convicted labor activists Yao Fuxin, 52, and Xiao Yunliang, 56, of "subverting the political power of the state." Yao received a seven-year jail term; Xiao, four years. Their one-day trial occurred five months ago, but the sentencing date was announced on May 6, preventing their Beijing-based lawyer, Mo Shaoping, from attending, as Liaoning is now quarantining visitors...
...activists' main offense? Last spring, Yao and Xiao led some 30,000 laid-off Liaoning factory workers in one of the largest labor demonstrations in five decades of communist rule. Included in the indictment were charges that Yao and Xiao listened to the Voice of America and Radio France International, and discussed their ideas with foreign journalists. They were also accused of forming a chapter of the banned China Democracy Party, a charge they deny. "We'll appeal, of course," says lawyer Mo. "But without significant international pressure, the chances of winning look awfully small." Even in these strange days...
...idea was born at a Rockets-Celtics game in February, where posters of Yao, made by Justin, his brother Austin and their friend, Eric Young, landed them a brief appearance on ESPN’s “SportsCenter.” Sensing an opportunity, Austin Wei decided to mass-produce foam likenesses, hoping to sell them at games and online...
...Greeks staved off the Persians, Genghis Khan stopped short of Kiev, and the Cold War ended with no major Eastern incursions. But it appears that a new monster has risen from the East, this time in the form of 7’6 Rockets’ center Yao Ming. Yao has arrived in full force, and his impact has been felt both in the paint and in the world of marketing, where Yao has been a smash hit in the past year...
Three young entrepreneurs, including Justin Y. Wei ’03, are cashing in by producing likenesses of Yao’s head made out of foam and selling them to eager Yao fans around the world. These novelties are worn on the hand—think the foam #1 finger...