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An expert on authoritarianism and the rule of law, he warned prophetically that Beijing’s frequent legal encroachments in the former British colony made its democratic prospects dim, Alvin Y.H. Cheung was a bookish Hong Kong teen heady with the ideas of John Locke and John Stuart Mill, when he was first swept into the thrill of citizen [...]

Byline: Suzanne Sataline Contributor Abstract: Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam acceded Wednesday to a key demand of protesters. But her critics immediately called the move 'too little, too late.' Five [...]

Byline: Suzanne Sataline Contributor Abstract: On July 1, as Hong Kong's young protesters stormed the legislature, Brian Leung became a face of the movement's most controversial action yet. On July [...]

Byline: Suzanne Sataline Contributor Abstract: Hong Kong protesters' lack of official leaders may protect them, but it also creates challenges - including, perhaps, for their movement's future. On July 1, [...]

Byline: Suzanne Sataline Contributor, Ann Scott Tyson Staff writer Abstract: Hong Kong protesters are increasingly frustrated with Chief Executive Carrie Lam's handling of a controversial bill. But so is Beijing, [...]

Byline: Suzanne Sataline Contributor Abstract: Mass protests surrounded government headquarters on Wednesday, as residents continued to fight a bill intensifying concerns over Beijing's influence. At dawn on Wednesday, thousands of [...]

Two years ago, Ray Wong and Alan Li, political activists in Hong Kong, were facing rioting charges over an all-night street clash with the police. They jumped bail and disappeared. [...]

Perhaps it was inevitable: Minutes after Diana Nyad, the 64-year-old marathon swimmer, landed on the sandy shores of Key West, Fla., succeeding in her fifth attempt to swim the straits [...]

It can be challenging for Willan Johnson to know how many people to employ at his pool-cleaning business, VivoPools, in Los Angeles, for a number of reasons. First, he needs [...]

Jean-Paul Tennant is in the adventure business, but that does not mean he enjoys taking risks. He is chief executive of a travel company, Geographic Expeditions, that specializes in arranging [...]

Last week, we published a case study about Ralph Lucci, owner of Automobile Film Club of America, a company that has supplied vehicles for film and television productions since 1993. [...]

The Automobile Film Club of America has played a supporting role in New York-based film and television productions since 1993. It owns a fleet of vehicles -- including police cruisers, [...]

Few small-business owners were prepared for the wrath of Hurricane Sandy. The storm and its tidal surge ravaged stores and restaurants, soaked inventory and stalled manufacturing throughout the New York [...]

DAVID BARRA'S seven-day swim from the Rip Van Winkle Bridge to the mouth of the Hudson River ended on Thursday with help from a roaring current. That afternoon, Mr. Barra [...]

Catskill, N.Y. THE journey of 120 miles begins with a single stroke, but the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu never swam in the mighty Hudson. David Barra peered over the edge [...]

Johnson & Johnson of the United States posted slow first quarter revenue increases with net income up by 16 percent to $3.31 billion from $2.84 billion. Revenue was buoyed by sales of medical devices and deal break-up moneys from Guidant Corp. Boston Scientific Corp. also of the United States posted a 7 percent decrease in first quarter profit with costs associated with the Guidant Corp. acquisition.

Byline: SUZANNE SATALINE The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was a watershed moment in ways artistic, emotional and historic. Judy Scott Feldman believes one of its lasting legacies is unintended - a [...]

Byline: SUZANNE SATALINE The instrument of the crime was a 1930s-era Heidig violin, crafted in Germany, worth many thousands of dollars, and wholly unsuited for a stint in evidence lockup. [...]

Byline: SUZANNE SATALINE A trio of Democratic senators, led by Bob Graham of Florida, asked Congress Thursday to reform intelligence gathering in the United States, chiefly by creating a cabinet-level [...]

Byline: KRIS HUNDLEY; SUZANNE SATALINE Just before 3 a.m. Friday, a bipartisan majority of the U.S. House of Representatives bucked a torrent of lobbying by drugmakers, the Food and Drug [...]

Byline: SUZANNE SATALINE Wednesday afternoon, the Harris brothers buried their mother beside their father in Arlington Cemetery. Then they walked to the one place in Washington that seemed the right [...]

Byline: SUZANNE SATALINE Congress is at an impasse over the Medicare bill in part because of deep divisions concerning whether to require Medicare to compete directly with private insurance plans [...]

Byline: SUZANNE SATALINE The residents of Abel Avenue live a few hundred feet over the border of Washington, D.C., but they endure the slings and arrows of urban life: drug [...]

Byline: SUZANNE SATALINE - KATHY CARTER, MOTHER OF ARMY SPC. BRIAN CARTER Even if they blocked out Fox News, stopped devouring the newspapers, and shut off the Internet, the mothers [...]

Byline: SUZANNE SATALINE There's Lipitor for cholesterol and Evista for her bones. Glucovance for diabetes and Veralan for hypertension. She could go on. Annemarie Reichle Mayer - widow, German war [...]

Byline: SUZANNE SATALINE Congress will race this week to pass the first-ever prescription drug benefit for America's seniors. But in their rush to pay for Paxil and Prevacid, members from [...]

'WORKED. Worked.' Mila Milan rolls the word off her tongue, juicing each consonant and vowel, the letters performing calisthenics on her face. Six people squint at the paper sign she […]

PHILADELPHIA _ Citizenship has become a hot commodity. As Congress weighs tough new legislation that would severely limit government aid available to legal immigrants, many of those who now enjoy [...]

College professor Julie Nemecek is suing Spring Arbor University for firing her after she changed gender, but the school cites religious freedom as its defense.

A recent report in 'The New England Journal of Medicine' claims that several pharmaceutical companies are withholding important information, such as the names of the drugs, during the development and research process.

In a Dover, Pennsylvania case that pits parents for the separation of church and state against a school district that forces teachers to tell students about 'intelligent design,' the book 'Of Pandas and People' has become central to the school board's argument that 'intelligent design' is not creationism.

Eleven parents of Dover, Pennsylvania schoolchildren have filed suit against a policy that requires teachers to read a statement that describes evolution as a theory and mentions intelligent design, citing a violation of separation of church and state rules.

CONCHO, Okla. _ It is the land where their people once lived, where they joined in the Sun Dance, and fasted and prayed for a bountiful year. Now it's a […]

PHILADELPHIA _ A Philadelphia Democrat says one of Bill Clinton's top political fund-raisers offered to get him into a 'truly intimate luncheon' with the President at the White House if […]

WASHINGTON _ Rep. Kenny Hulshof favors campaign-finance reform. He had even chided his opponent for accepting out-of-state money. But when he got to Washington this month, the freshman Republican from […]

CHICAGO _ In the cramped downtown offices of an anti-abortion group, former Pennsylvania Gov. Robert P. Casey on Monday denounced his party's support of abortion rights and derided the Democrats […]

EAST MORICHES, N.Y. _ A child's camera still in its case. A woman's brown leather coat, with a hanger in its sleeve. A bundle of letters held tightly by a […]

PHILADELPHIA _ There was the Chicago Eight, then the Secaucus Seven. Get ready for the Philly Five. (If things get really gnarly, we may have the Dirty Dozen. But for […]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. _ The action's thick at the mini baccarat table. This is James Bond's game: high rollers, long odds, thousands down and thousands gone with the unkind cut […]

PHILADELPHIA _ Sen. Arlen Specter, whose quest to win the presidency by appealing to Republican moderates never got airborne, shut down the engines Wednesday to avoid piling up futile campaign […]

PHILADELPHIA _ At most hours, but especially the midnight hour, 13th Street near Locust is a dark cavern of low-rent bookstores and low-lit bars advertising many forms of delirium for […]

PHILADELPHIA _ When the Rev. Jesse Jackson said Sunday that the urban poor must become a priority, Patricia Page Walton said hallelujah. When he urged the 19th Street Baptist Church […]

PHILADELPHIA _ 'WANTED: Male cheetah, native of Toronto with good genes, seeks sleek, frisky female for rolls in grass and midday siestas. Must tolerate crowds and Philadelphia smog.' Perhaps mating […]