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...frosh Weekend you go to everything you can,” remembers Nworah B. Ayogu ’10. “You don’t self-segregate. You’re running from one event to the other and you might end up at the [Hong] Kong [restaurant] with a group of people you met 10 minutes...
...That fight has made Lee the face of Hong Kong's democracy movement, especially during the territory's 1997 transition from British to Chinese rule. Under the current "one-country, two systems" policy, voters in Hong Kong may directly elect half of their 60 legislators, but Beijing retains the power to appoint the territory's chief executive. Lee has doggedly lobbied for greater electoral freedom for Hong Kong citizens. "Martin is for Hong Kong what Aung San Suu Kyi is for Burma, and what the Dalai Lama is for Tibet," says Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy...
...failed to reach his goal of establishing full democracy in Hong Kong, but he stresses that he and the Democratic Party he founded in 1994 have achieved one thing: "No one today in Hong Kong will say that democracy is bad for Hong Kong," he says. "The only dispute is the timing." Hong Kong's Basic Law, the mini-constitution enacted in 1997, proposed the introduction of universal suffrage as early as 2008. In 2004, Beijing postponed that date until at least 2012. Then last December, Beijing announced that Hong Kong voters will have to wait until...
...height of his popularity, Lee helped lead half a million marchers through the streets of Hong Kong on July 1, 2003, forcing pro-Beijing lawmakers to abandon a controversial anti-subversion bill. Since then however, the number of marchers in the annual protest has steadily dwindled. Lee doesn't seem worried. "When there's a good reason again, they?ll come out," he says. "Never discount Hong Kong people's enthusiasm...
...sixth of seven children, Lee was born in Hong Kong but was raised in nearby Guangzhou, on the mainland. He earned his B.A. from the University of Hong Kong before studying law at Lincoln's Inn in London. After returning to Hong Kong to practice law, he was elected to the Legislative Council in 1985 and became a member of the Beijing-appointed committee to draft Hong Kong?s Basic Law. But when Beijing cracked down on protestors in Tiananmen Square in 1989, Lee's role in leading protests in Hong Kong led to his ouster from the Basic...