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...justice show that despite China's economic expansion, many citizens are simmering with discontent. NPC petition offices, one of many venues in Beijing for accepting citizen complaints, say they received about 20,000 petitions last year, up 30% from 2002. The success rate of China's petitioners is infinitesimal. Bin, a Chinese photographer who has spent much of the past four years documenting their plight, says he has heard of only one complainant who left Beijing satisfied. "These people have experienced some of the worst things in China, yet at the same time they still believe their complaints will...
...there will be no attempt here to rank order Morris, Eaves, Knight, O’Leary and Price in a coaching sin bin. But it is fair to say that what Morris did certainly doesn’t put him on a moral low-ground when compared with the other four, and they are all coaching Division I teams again...
Osama, Where Art Thou? New intel in the bin Laden hunt; the rap on A.Q. Khan; the Dems and the press; a crisis in Tehran; tough times for Kobe Bryant; America's forgotten internment camp...
...American forces truly getting any closer to finding Osama bin Laden? Two weeks ago, Lieut. Colonel Bryan Hilferty, U.S. military spokesman in Afghanistan, raised hopes when he boldly announced he was "sure" bin Laden would be captured by the end of the year. His statement also prompted the inevitable speculation during an election year that the Bush Administration was somehow trying to orchestrate an October surprise: namely, the capture of the terrorist mastermind just before voters go to the polls in November...
...sense of rising optimism fueled in part by the capture of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and in part by recent data gathering. A knowledgeable U.S. intelligence official tells TIME that a recent spike in intelligence has given government officials greater reason for hope than at any time since bin Laden escaped U.S. clutches in Tora Bora at the end of 2001. "There are some channels that are very active," this official says, declining to give details for fear they might "dry up." He adds, "There are a lot of people very confident that they have him narrowed to a certain...