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MARRIED. Actor-director EDWARD BURNS, 35, and supermodel CHRISTY TURLINGTON, 34; in San Francisco. Burns, who arrived on the scene in 1995 with his film The Brothers McMullen, wed yoga entrepreneur and antismoking activist Turlington after a tabloid-chronicled courtship of 2 1/2 years...
...Conditions inside C.-and-R. centers are so appalling, even by the grim standards of China's penal institutions, that they won't stay secret forever. Tong Yi, a New York City-based lawyer and human-rights activist who did time in both a re-education labor camp in her native Wuhan and in Beijing's main C.-and-R. center before being granted political asylum in the U.S., describes hellish scenes of healthy children and adults and the mentally ill locked up together. "Life in the center was chaotic and filthy," she recalls. "There was no drinking water, just...
...predecessor, Kim Dae Jung?who said South Korean agents tried to kill him three times in his days as a democratic activist?also vowed to clean up the agency. But by the end of Kim's presidential term in February, he was embroiled in a scandal over charges that the NIS illegally funneled money to Kim Jong Il to buy the North Korean dictator's participation in a June 2000 summit. "Every new government promises to make the spy service neutral," says Ahn Chung Si, a political scientist at Seoul National University. "But they all end up abusing...
...agents torture and kill student activist Park Chong Chol. An autopsy reveals his windpipe was smashed on the edge of a bathtub...
...junta could always count on a sympathetic hearing from Razali Ismail. As the U.N.'s special envoy to Burma, Razali argued that it was possible to engage the ruling generals in dialogue. His softly-softly approach seemed to yield results. A year ago, he brokered the release of democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi after 19 months of house arrest and secured what he thought was a firm commitment from junta boss General Than Shwe to negotiate with her about the country's political future. But last Saturday, Razali was back to square one, struggling once again to persuade...