The jury found her guilty of second-degree murder for accidentally killing her victim as she mugged him.

The most talked-about new book here, “China is Unhappy,” combines hypernationalism with biting criticism of Western mismanagement and of China’s reluctance to grasp its place in history.

She leaned forward, tilted her head, as if to get a rightways look at the snapshot herself

The pupils of her great eyes were large in the doubtful lamplight, swallowing their green fires in deep pools of mystery and darkness.