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...guards whipped him with his own belt and choked him with his shoelaces. Last December, when Li tried to enter a National People's Congress (NPC) petition office with his precious stack of documents, an official grabbed the papers and lit them on fire?to Li, a more devastating blow than any physical torture. "Without my papers, there is no way I can get justice," says Li, his 45-year-old face etched with the wrinkles of a far older man. Now he is worried that irate local officials who are tired of him complaining about them in Beijing might...
...from 60% in 1995 to just 28% last year, according to Swedish pollster SIFO. "There is a severe crisis in public confidence in the business sector," says Erik Asbrink, who heads a five-member commission appointed by the Swedish government to restore trust. Skandia is an especially severe psychological blow. The $4.7 billion firm is the largest insurer in the Nordic area and the oldest listed company on the Stockholm exchange. In 1999, Petersson was chosen by Veckans Affärer, a Swedish weekly business magazine, as the best CEO in Sweden. Now he's facing two serious allegations: that...
According to professors, Harvard researchers last week were dealt a humbling blow when a monumental medical breakthrough in stem cell research took place in a South Korean...
...zone as the Crimson applied pressure from goal line to goal line, senior forward Tyler Kolarik intercepted an errant Union pass and quickly transitioned to attack, with he and freshman Kevin Du closing on net with three defenders in position to cover. Kolarik attracted the first, who delivered a blow that sent the puck trickling towards the middle...
...across the student body like an unpleasant rash as more and more joined to build connected social networks in a bid to prove their own popularity. There was the obligatory flattering photo adorning each profile—my own completely unrepresentative image, for example, was all wide-eyed and blow-dried, culled from a photo album otherwise sadly dominated by slightly demonic red eyes and uncontrollably frizzy hair...