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jacobwe

  1. My SNHU commencement address, courtesy of Verizon bit.ly/K01YFq
  2. Steve Isenberg is retiring from PEN, where he has done a terrific job. PEN is looking for a new Executive Director.
  3. New NYC profession: Big Gulp smuggler.
  4. Amazing story about how Ai Weiwei grabbed camera away from one of his monitors in the park and reduced him to tears. tgr.ph/LXOVsi
  5. Ai Weiwei on why he doesn't miss his privacy. VIDEO: slate.me/L3MZ2U
  6. Can't get that Teenage Fanclub song from "Young Adult" out of my head. youtu.be/rqYibZeafg8
  7. Pleased to report I've had a breakthrough and can now read New Yorker on my IPad. Key was using sub number and not name/ address. @NewYorker
  8. Best analysis I've read MT @nybooks: On the “symbiotically intimate” ties between Murdoch and British governments j.mp/JL1pps
  9. Chen: national government is capable of doing the right thing, as my case shows. But abuses by local officials even more common than known.
  10. Chen: Bo Xilai wasn't an isolated incident. If party can't control corrupt officials, it will lose control.
  11. Chen: I'm very optimistic that we'll see real democracy in China in my lifetime. Freer flow of information means gov can't cover up.
  12. Chen Guangcheng @cfr: Don't assume Chinese gov won't let me return. They let me leave to study. That's unprecedented. twitter.com/jacobwe/status…
  13. Chen says at NYU he wants to focus on law for the disabled, which exists in China but can't be enforced. @cfr
  14. Ai Weiwei says Tweeting is his art in a language version. VIDEO slate.me/L3MZ2U
  15. I went to see Ai Weiwei at home in Beijing. Here's some video. slate.me/L3MZ2U
  16. Gives Trump too much credit to call him a charlatan. Fool describes him more accurately.
  17. If Reagan or GWB erroneously referred to Polish death camps, neocons would be defending it, right?