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...phenomenon is happening in much larger numbers on Twitter, where thousands of Chinese users post information about current events in China despite the site's being blocked by authorities. When the activist lawyer Gao Zhisheng reappeared in March after disappearing in police custody more than a year ago, the news was first revealed on Twitter and then spread to the mainstream press. Ai Weiwei, a Chinese artist who has organized an investigation into the deaths of children whose schools collapsed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, has been active on Twitter over the past year; he now has 33,000 followers...
Former Harvard Overseer and Boston-based intellectual property lawyer William F. Lee ’72 has been selected to serve on the Harvard Corporation and said yesterday that he plans to continue the University’s highest governing body’s efforts to increase its transparency...
Former Overseer and intellectual property lawyer William F. Lee ’72 has been selected to serve on the Harvard Corporation—the University’s highest governing body—the University announced today...
...meantime, the legal clouds around the case appear to be growing thicker. On Wednesday, April 7, Israeli prosecutors arrested Olmert's close confidant and former lawyer Uri Messer on suspicion of helping to collect bribes, obstructing justice and laundering money in conjunction with an unnamed suspect. The local media are barred by a court order from revealing the identity of the suspect. The Jerusalem Post ran an article with the headline "Uri Messer Is the Link." The police are calling the Messer case "one of the most serious corruption affairs in the state's history." (See how Olmert succeeded Ariel...
...Madrid, and associates now say he will be not be returning for another week. If and when he does, the police will be waiting for him at the airport, government sources told TIME, and the Israeli media are already speculating that he may be taken into custody. Olmert's lawyer has denied that his client has done anything that would warrant being arrested. On Thursday, the lawyer asked that the former Prime Minister's ongoing trial be halted so as to not be confused with the investigation of Messer. The judge agreed; Olmert's trial is set to resume...