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After being forced out of China, Yang became very active in pro-democracy dissident organizations in the United States, chairing the U.S. branch of the Federation for Pro-Democracy in China, Fu said...
...executive branch might be of more help. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has chosen to join the Allstate class-action lawsuit, and it has also intervened on behalf of the 650 life insurance agents. However, the New York Times reports that the new Bush-appointed chair of the commission has begun to deemphasize the agency’s litigation efforts, and there’s a possibility that a Republican-dominated board could be less vigilant in prosecuting cases of discrimination...
...they know. This week Wolfram is publishing A New Kind of Science (Wolfram Media), a 1,200-page tome, some two decades in the making, that claims to redefine the foundations of virtually every branch of science, from physics and mathematics to biology and even psychology. "Stephen is not a modest man," says Terrence Sejnowski, director of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., who is an avid Wolfram watcher. "But his ideas could turn out to be extremely important...
...extent of his powers will be. On that front he faces a concerted challenge from within the ranks of his own party, Fatah, which is not only proposing far-reaching changes to end the corruption and cronyism around Arafat but also working to ensure that the Palestinian executive branch is held more accountable to its elected legislature - all of which will diminish Arafat's personal power. While that may please many of the Israeli and Western leaders frustrated in their dealings with Arafat, the irony is that a more democratic Palestinian leadership could well be even less inclined than Arafat...
...costs?and by any method. As a slogan daubed on a military bunker in Aceh puts it: We love peace?but we love unity more. "As long as there is GAM to fight, TNI brutality will not end," says M. Yusef Puteh, director of FP HAM's East Aceh branch. "I'm beginning to think that what they're doing here has the blessing of the central government. It will forgive the soldiers anything...