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CORRESPONDENTS: Joelle Attinger (Chief), Richard Hornik (Deputy, Foreign), Janice C. Simpson (Deputy, Domestic) Chief Political Correspondent: Michael Kramer Washington Contributing Editor: Hugh Sidey Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, J. Madeleine Nash, Richard N. Ostling National Correspondents: Margot Hornblower, Jon D. Hull, Jack E. White Diplomatic Correspondent: J.F.O. McAllister Washington: Dan Goodgame, Ann Blackman, James Carney, Michael Duffy, Jay Peterzell, Suneel Ratan, Elaine Shannon, Ann M. Simmons, Dick Thompson, Mark Thompson, Karen Tumulty, Douglas Waller, Adam Zagorin, Melissa August New York: John Moody, Edward Barnes, Massimo Calabresi, John F. Dickerson, Jenifer Mattos Boston: Sam Allis Chicago: Elizabeth Taylor...
Hong Kong-based senior correspondent Sandra Burton has never wanted for determination; so when a long-sought visa to visit China and survey its mammoth Three Gorges Dam project on the Yangtze River arrived recently, she set out immediately -- despite a broken ankle. She was doing nicely, navigating curbs and dodging Beijing bicycle traffic on her crutches, when she arrived at the office building of a high official attached to the dam. There, an apologetic aide informed her that due to one of the city's increasingly frequent power shortages, the elevator was out -- and she would have to climb...
...course, Burton had known already. She first arrived in Beijing as bureau chief in 1988, following stints in Los Angeles, Boston, Paris and Hong Kong. She was best known for her coverage of Filipino leader Benigno Aquino's assassination (her tape-recording of the shots that killed him became evidence at the murder trial) and of the subsequent "people power" rallies that swept his widow Cory to power. Burton had not been in China long when a similar street demonstration occurred -- with tragically different results -- at Tiananmen Square. But in quieter moments, Beijing's blanket of smog awakened in Burton...
CORRESPONDENTS: Joelle Attinger (Chief), Richard Hornik (Deputy, Foreign), Janice C. Simpson (Deputy, Domestic) Chief Political Correspondent: Michael Kramer Washington Contributing Editor: Hugh Sidey Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, J. Madeleine Nash, Richard N. Ostling National Correspondents: Margot Hornblower, Jon D. Hull, Jack E. White Diplomatic Correspondent: J.F.O. McAllister Washington: Dan Goodgame, Ann Blackman, James Carney, Michael Duffy, Jay Peterzell, Suneel Ratan, Elaine Shannon, Ann M. Simmons, Dick Thompson, Mark Thompson, Karen Tumulty, Douglas Waller, Adam Zagorin, Melissa August New York: John Moody, Edward Barnes, Massimo Calabresi, John F. Dickerson, Jenifer Mattos Boston: Sam Allis Chicago: Elizabeth Taylor...
...Some voters were literally trapped in the voting booths, since they had already closed the curtain, and were forced to vote on questions about which they were confused and on which they had no substantive information in front of them," Ruth A. Bourquin and Burton A. Nadler, the plaintiffs' attorneys, wrote in a memo to Judge Hiller B. Zobel...