Kansas chemist will get last acquittal in China ties case

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Franklin Feng Tao, the affiliate professor of chemistry caught up within the Trump-era crackdown on analysis ties to his native China, is in search of to be rehired by the College of Kansas after getting his long-awaited federal courtroom acquittal. Tao was convicted in a three-week trial in 2022 after being accused—in a way just…

Patti Smith Reads Her Remaining Letter to Robert Mapplethorpe, Calling Him “the Most Stunning Work of All”

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When you go to listen to Pat­ti Smith in con­cert, you count on her to sing “Beneath the South­ern Cross,” “As a result of the Night time,” and virtually cer­tain­ly “Peo­ple Have the Pow­er,” the hit sin­gle from Dream of Life. Like her 1975 debut Hors­es, that album had a cov­er pho­to by Robert Map­plethor­pe, whom Smith describes as…