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...took her four-year-old daughter and unfurled a yellow banner reading THE FALUN LAW IS THE UNIVERSAL LAW! Police jailed Liu and threatened to dispatch her to China's labor-camp gulag. Her parents, terrified, begged her to disavow her beliefs; her husband smacked her face; her boss threatened her job. Liu waved them away. Then someone brought her weeping daughter to jail, and Liu's will broke. In writing, she promised never to protest again...
There's more to this than the usual tale of corporate rivalry. GE, after all, is no ordinary American company, and Welch--the great hero of modern American capitalism--is no ordinary boss. Since he declared the commission's conditions unacceptable, three Senators--Republican Phil Gramm and Democrats John D. Rockefeller and Ernest Hollings--have expressed concern to the Europeans. Hollings, new chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, said the developments supported those who think the E.C. seeks to "protect and promote European industry at the expense of its U.S. competitors," and warned that "denial of a merger...would undermine...
Then he started opening his e-mail. The first was from our boss, about Joel's next column. I liked being a snoop in the loop. Another was from Joel's girlfriend's brother asking Joel to score free concert tickets. Then a chain e-mail from a few of our co-workers, with snarky comments about someone else on our floor they evidently don't like. Ah, isn't this what computer spying is all about...
...there’s one thing you learn it is that introductions of your boss always sound like flattery,” Nye joked. But in the end, Nye said to laughter that “like anyone, Larry, you’ll only get ten minutes...
...still a surgical procedure, which raises the possibility that something will go wrong, and George W. Bush will have to find himself a new chief adviser/energy czar/congressional arm-twister/Senate tiebreaker/rock on which his White House is built/most invaluable vice president in history. Cheney works longer hours than his boss, he sits in when Bush meets world leaders, and his appearance last week at an Orlando fund-raiser June 23 brought in $2.5 million for the GOP. And there's only...