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Sources: AP (2); USA Today (2); AP; New York Times; AFP; BBC...
Blair isn't ready to just disappear. "You'll have to put up with me for a bit longer," he told the BBC's famously pugnacious interviewer John Humphrys last week. And at Downing Street, which always looks more like a film set than its screen simulacrums, people are doing their best to act out that message of business as usual. An aide reels off the day's wearying list of prime-ministerial meetings and appointments, before revealing the anguish behind this glassy efficiency in a voice lowered to a whisper: "It reminds me of the end of the Clinton...
According to a recent BBC undercover investigation, Oct. 1 has many interesting meanings in the People’s Republic of China. It is, of course, the country’s National Day. It is also, the BBC reports, the peak of organ season in China’s rapidly growing organ transplant centers (frequented by many a rich Westerner in need of a liver or two). The reason for this October surge in organ supply is simple, the BBC reports: Prisoner executions in China always go up before the national holiday...
...BBC learned of this fall prisoner organ harvest through hidden camera footage taken by BBC correspondent Rupert Wingfield Hayes. In the video, Hayes strolls into one of the largest organ transplant centers in Northern China in order to procure a liver for his “ailing father.” Not particularly in the mood for subterfuge, Hayes asks the doctors if they received the organs from executed prisoners. The hospital officials cheerfully proclaim, “The prisoners on death row have done many bad things. Before they die they give their organs as a present to society...
...Blair is adamant that he won't be pushed out of office early. In a defiant interview with BBC radio on Friday, the Prime Minister stated that he would not quit over the cash for honors scandal. The British public, he said, "will have to put up with me for a bit longer...