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...CONVICTED. TAKAYUKI NOGUCHI, 32, Japanese activist; of helping two North Koreans to flee their country via China; in China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. A district court sentenced Noguchi to eight months in prison, the most severe punishment China has handed down to a Japanese for helping North Koreans defect...
...KILLED. CHAROEN WATTAKSORN, 37, Thai environmental activist; by an unknown assailant; in Thailand's Prachuab Khiri Khan province. The leader of massive demonstrations that successfully pressured the government into scrapping plans for a power plant in Prachuab Khiri Khan in May 2002, Charoen was shot hours after testifying at an anticorruption hearing in Bangkok. Supporters claim that his testimony, in which he accused local businessmen of corruption in a land deal, was a motive in the murder...
...1970s, the Rev. Anderson, already established as a civil-rights activist, took naturally to the fight for female priesthood in Episcopalianism. "A few of us moved things along," she says. "It wasn't unlike the struggle for gays and lesbians today." But with that goal achieved (and her ordination shortly thereafter), her energies turned toward the church's charismatic renewal movement, which valued theological conservatism and belief in the gifts of the Holy Spirit alongside social activism. The trend attracted relatively little Episcopal attention in the U.S. at the time but exerted a greater fascination on the denomination's Anglican...
...guilty of criminal wrongdoing, they say, he was abetted by a Vivendi board that didn't do its job and by French regulators who turned a blind eye. "He's become the scapegoat of everyone who played a role," says Colette Neuville, a leading shareholder activist who frequently sparred with Messier while he was running Vivendi. "Nobody tried to hold up a stop sign in front of Messier. And what's worrying is that if another Messier were to come around today, it's not certain anybody would hold up a stop sign in front of them, either." Take...
...COLETTE NEUVILLE, French shareholder activist...