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...denied to thousands of would-be attendees and that some of those who had managed to show up were being harassed by state security officers. Organizers of the conference, a parallel meeting to the larger United Nations' Fourth World Conference on Women, which opens Monday, suggested they might even cancel the forum if the Chinese didn't stop the intimidation. FRANCE STORMS PROTEST SHIPS...
...that China has detained American human rights activist Harry Wu. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has a solution. In an interview with The Washington Times published today, Gingrich said the U.S. should try to move the conference out of Beijing in protest. If not, he warned, the House might simply cancel funding for the U.S. group...
...Pearl Jam manager Kelly Curtis reportedly said the band might relent and use Ticketmaster. That brought an outcry--from Pearl Jam vocalist Eddie Vedder, who insisted that Ticketmaster was out. Then, on June 24, Vedder got sick with the flu, ended a San Francisco concert early and decided to cancel the entire tour-sort of. Days later, the band reinstated concerts in Milwaukee and Chicago and hinted at more...
Federal authorities arrested Christopher Johnson on arson charges, accusing him of having set fire last August to Alabama's Randolph County High School, the school beset with racial discord after its principal, Hulond Humphries, threatened to cancel a prom over interracial dating. Emmett Johnson, the suspect's father and founder of a local protest group called the Black Panther Militia, asserted that the arrest was a frame...
...heart of the question of whether the Republicans are really serious about cutting unnecessary government or whether their rhetoric is just a veiled attack on the poor and working class for the purpose of scoring political points. Just last month, the Republicans blocked a move by Congressional Democrats to cancel one of the most repugnant tax loopholes on the U.S. books. Through a specially crafted provision, a small number of mega-billionaires renounce their American citizenship every year in order to avoid paying U.S. taxes. These individuals take citizenship in St. Kitts, the Bahamas, Belize, or other low-tax countries...