Composer Jim Cohen told his wife, writer Joanne Lee Drexler Cohen, he couldn’t do the project, but “She was right ... it was possible to do ... successfully.”

At a cozy Italian restaurant, renowned photographer Tony Vaccaro was flipping through the pages of his book, “Entering Germany: Photographs 1944—1949,” as Mozart’s music was playing lightly in the background.

The whereabouts of Chinese human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng remains unclear five months after his arrest by police in his hometown on February 4.