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Beijing Students Protest Detention of Lecturer

Students in Beijing protested the reported detention of a popular lecturer and “self-help guru,” Ding Xiaoping, the New York Times reports:At least 100 students, many from the country’s finest institutions of higher learning, were protesting the detention of Ding Xiaoping, an entrepreneur, inventor and charismatic purveyor of “self-perfection” who spent three years in jail for his rol