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...ARRESTED. Ma Shiwen, deputy director of the Henan Center for Disease Control, for reportedly providing a non-governmental Chinese aids organization with data detailing the infection of tens of thousands of Chinese villagers with hiv during blood transfusions; in Henan province. An aids activist reported the arrest; the government has refused to comment on the case and Shiwen's colleagues say "he has just disappeared...
Another group of friends is drawn from family, like his nephew Patrick Knapp, a lawyer, and Bobby Shriver, his wife's brother, who is a political activist and movie producer. Friends say the Kennedy-Shriver clan has softened the edges of Schwarzenegger's politics from the time he came into their orbit in the late 1970s. "Arnold was quite right wing when I first met him in 1972," says Butler. "Maria has moderated that quite...
Okhotin’s devout Baptist faith has been a defining force in his protracted legal battle. He has said that his father, Vladimir Okhotin, was detained by Soviet authorities for several years in the 1980s for no crime but his activist Protestantism—and Andrew Okhotin and his supporters have said they have no choice but to wonder if lingering contempt for Protestants on the part of the Orthodox authorities is behind his ordeal this year...
Kane stressed that he did not see himself as an authoritarian or activist registrar...
...little more than a month ago, insiders were saying the Dean movement had all the resonance of a temper tantrum. Even activist Democrats, the line went, would eventually come to their senses and realize that this antiwar one-noter from liberal Vermont was out of synch with the politics of a post-9/11 world. And what about the Internet-driven rabble that packs his events, those 68,000 who have signed up for yet another of Dean's "Meetup" events at 340 spots across the country this Wednesday? Too young, too alienated, too inchoate to matter...