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National editor Harry Jaffe writes often about crime; this is online editor Ann Limpert's first feature-length story for the magazine. Dialogue in the story was taken from official transcripts, taped interviews, and court records. When official records were not available,...

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The Hong Kong chief executive election is scheduled for May 8, with incumbent Chief Executive Carrie Lam (林鄭月娥) having announced that she would not seek re-election. While former chief executive Leung Chun-ying (梁振英), who is vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), has been reluctant to join the race, former chief secretary for administration John Lee (李家超) announced his bid early this month. In Hong Kong’s...

Victor Yampolsky walked into Regenstein Hall of Music for his first rehearsal as Northwestern’s faculty director of Orchestras on Sept. 15, 1984. Now, 37 years later, Yampolsky stands in the back of a room in that same building watching two of his students, Robert Hasty (Bienen ‘96) and Alexander Chen (Bienen ‘23), conduct this year’s...

Victor Yampolsky walked into Regenstein Hall of Music for his first rehearsal as Northwestern’s faculty director of Orchestras on Sept. 15, 1984. Now, 37 years later, Yampolsky stands in the back of a room in that same building watching two of his students, Robert Hasty (Bienen ‘96) and Alexander Chen (Bienen ‘23), conduct this year’s...

by Chen Guangcheng Henry Holt, 330 pp. In early 2012, Chen Guangcheng, a self-taught lawyer who had been blind since infancy, lived with his wife and two children in the village of Dongshigu, where he’d been raised, on the eastern edge of the North China plain. They were not there by choice. For a little over a decade, Chen had waged a public campaign against corruption, pollution, forced abortion, and other abuses of power. Officials had responded with escalating punishments. After he comple...