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...list of these abuses is mindboggling, ranging from a secret police network to an extensive system of laogai, or prison camps, filled with political prisoners, to forced abortions for purposes of population control, to the brazen and brutal occupation of Tibet. It would take a serious tome to document these abuses in their entirety...
...punish press actions that are deemed an "assault on intimacy or privacy." Actress Isabelle Adjani used the law to win a judgment against the tabloid Voici in 1995 for running photos taken without her permission. Still, French paparazzi are widely perceived to be among the world's most brazen. In Britain, meanwhile, the Press Complaints Commission, established in 1991, has drawn up a code of practice to prevent invasive press tactics. Though hard to enforce, the rules have succeeded in removing at least some paparazzi shots from the raucous British tabloids...
...saints on Wall Street. The most hallowed of the lot would include the highly successful Michael Price, who oversees $26 billion at Franklin Mutual Advisers, and the equally prosperous CEO-for-rent Al Dunlap, who is doing a tour at small-appliance maker Sunbeam Corp. In a brazen display of cronyism, the two last week publicly denounced ITT Corp.'s tactics in fending off a hostile takeover by Hilton Hotels. Picture that: Price, whom FORTUNE magazine calls "the scariest s.o.b. on Wall Street," linking with Dunlap, whose endearing nicknames include "Chainsaw" and "Rambo in pinstripes." A formidable...
Chairwoman Nancy Johnson of Connecticut did her best to call the penalty "tough and unprecedented compared to past cases." It will be--if the fine comes out of Gingrich's pocket. In a brazen wiggle, his office left open the possibility that the fine could be paid from campaign contributions. That would render it all but meaningless; it would also open him up to the accusations made against Bill Clinton's legal-defense fund--that it's an open door for influence peddlers. In other words, an ethical problem...
...three groups have actively trampled other preconditions for fair elections as well: blocking freedom of association and freedom of expression. Forty miles east of Doboj, in Tuzla, for example, the ruling Muslim Party of Democratic Action (S.D.A.) has disrupted opposition rallies and oppressed non-S.D.A. members with brazen disregard for the Dayton agreement. Until last month, Merdzana Fisca, a Bosnian Muslim belonging to an anti-S.D.A. party, was director of a Tuzla detergent factory that survived the war in mint condition under her leadership. One day she arrived at work to find her office locked with...