Ms GU Kailai

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Ravi Somaiya and Sandy Macaskill, Innocent Pawn or Shrewd Operator: Britons See 2 Sides of Chinese Murder Suspect. New York Times, July 29, 2012.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/2 ... &pagewanted=all

(a) Excerpt in teh window of print:
(i) Green tea, a modest apartment and threats to those who crossed her.
(ii) A crime grips China's political elite and reverberates.

(b) quote:
(i) "Her journey to England began in an obscure Beijing hotel conference room in 1997. Ms Gu [Kailai] and her husband had decided their son must learn to speak English, and the founders of the Dorset International College, a language school near Bournemouth that has since closed, were recommended. They were summoned to an interview.

"According to the proprietors of the school, who declined to be named because of the delicacy of the subject, it was through this connection that Ms Gu and her son moved to Bournemouth.

(ii) "Details of her relationship with Mr [Neil] Heywood have centered on reports that he helped get her son into his alma mater, the exclusive Harrow School. But the proprietors of the Bournemouth language school dispute that account, claiming that Ms. Gu initially wanted her son to attend a different school entirely.

“'Everyone has put two and two together and assumed that it was Neil Heywood, but it was us that brought him to Harrow,' one of the proprietors said. 'We had contacts at the school. But it wasn’t their first choice.'

"The proprietor seriously questions the Chinese murder charges. “A lot of mud is being thrown,” he said.

(c) Note:
(i) Dorset International College does not have its own website (http://www.dorsetinternationalcollege.co.uk was closed). It is just anotehr language school for ESL (English as Second Language).
(ii) Bournemouth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bournemouth
(a resort town in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England)

* bourne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne
("a word from the Anglo-Saxon language of England. It means a stream, flowing from a spring, and is commonly used in southern England (particularly Dorset) as a name for a small river")