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...Reilly, Bill • producer for is sent by to ambush blogger who dared to be critical...
...levy a 90% or 100% tax on current bonuses at AIG and other financial-industry wards of the state. But if such selective tax increases are constitutional - and it appears that they can be - another approach would make far more sense (I am brazenly stealing it from financial blogger Steve Randy Waldman): impose a less punitive (50%?) but retroactive tax on the past four years of bonuses above a certain amount ($1 million?) paid out by any financial institution that receives a bailout. That is, spread the net wider to catch the real culprits, and use tax policy to change...
...become a hobbyhorse for nationalists who often dominate popular Internet chat rooms in China. Zhu Xingli, founder and CEO of Huiyuan, famously said that he had "raised the company like a son" but was "selling it like a pig" - that is, at the market, for the highest price available. Blogger Zhang Xianfeng retorted, "The problem with selling to a multinational company is that it's no longer Chinese deciding which part of the pig you get to eat." A survey by Xinhua, China's state-owned news agency, found that more than 80% of Internet commentary on the deal...
...again, however, especially since December, when democracy supporters used the Internet to circulate the "Charter 08" petition challenging the government. That crackdown, in part, has fed the grass-mud horse craze and similar online double entendres designed to flout the government's role as Big Brother. As one Chinese blogger told the Times, even with the most modern technology trying to hold them back, people will find a way to express themselves. "It is like a water flow - if you block one direction, it flows to other directions, or overflows...
...unsurprisingly, the leading source of information of the unfolding soda saga. The website featured a frequently asked questions section, pictures of unused prototype labels, and hypertext links to articles about other real sugar sodas. Just in case an 800-word essay speculating bottle design had left anything out, the blogger reminded the reader, “As always, keep your browser pointing here at BevReview.com for further updates… and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter to say informed!” I couldn’t bring myself to keep reading. It could have...