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...above protecting his friends. When the Xiamen case was on the verge of implicating the wife of Beijing party chief Jia Qinglin, a friend of Jiang's, the President effectively blocked the investigation by appearing on television last January with Jia beside him. The corrosive effects of corruption have bitten deeply into China's body politic and will take more than a few decrees to be washed away...
...most exciting short-term benefit of this year's class is that it will provide immediate improvement to the team, which has already been bitten by the injury bug. Co-captain Melissa Johnson is still on the mend from a torn MCL last year, junior Laura Barnard is out with a stress fracture and sophomore Sarah Johnson injured her knee in practice...
...should be a Mets fan. I identify with their culture. I appreciate how deep into the Bachman-Turner Overdrive canon the Shea Stadium deejay can dig. I have bitten my palm, Squiggy-style, over the throngs of big-haired women who have the Mets logo airbrushed on their nails. And I get pumped up when Hawaiian-born Benny Agbayani comes to bat and the scoreboard flashes, without any offense intended, HAWAIIAN PUNCH...
Every revolution has its moment of combustion. Yugoslavia's came on an autumn Wednesday in the persons of three elderly men on a tractor. Hundreds of Slobodan Milosevic's dreaded special police had swept down on the hard-bitten diggers at the Kolubara coal mine in Serbia's heartland who had first initiated popular resistance by refusing to work. Attempting to force out the 7,000 striking miners intent on crippling the country's electric grid, security troops surrounded the complex and blockaded a key bridge with police buses. But the workers stood fast, broadcast for help on radios...
Umair Choudhry, 10, steps off a yellow school bus in Chicago wearing a helmet, mittens and a mouth guard. He's dressed for protection--not from the elements or schoolyard bullies but from himself. He has bitten his arms in the past and scarred his scalp by tearing out his hair. In his native Pakistan, his relatives think he is possessed by demons. "They said an evil spirit was making him hurt himself," says his mother Farah Choudhry. In the U.S., his affliction is known as autism...