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...While Xu was in detention - he'd been taken into police custody the night before after men who had been following him around in a car accused him of stealing a wallet, according to his friend and fellow lawyer, Teng Biao - Chen sat through a trial on charges that could earn him five years in jail. According to another of his lawyers, who had spoken to Chen's brother, Chen vomited during the trial. It was, wrote longtime China law scholar Jerome Cohen, in an e-mail sent to reporters, an "understandable and appropriate" response to "the nauseating nature...
...Just as Angelides was finishing his speech, Schwarzenegger held a press event with tax-cut advocates, reiterating his pledge not to raise taxes and touting his tax-relief record. "I will not raise taxes on the people of California in my second term - period," he said."Thanks to the car-tax repeal and workers' compensation reform, we put more than $12 billion back into the economy so that people and businesses can save, invest and build...
...work with human nature and not against it. Sadly, humanity has a lot of negative aspects, and the two I focused on were laziness and shallowness. It is my belief that we are aesthetically shallow. We are very aspirational; it really matters how we dress, what kind of car we drive and what our place looks like. That's why gossip mags, TV and movies are so aspirational - it's always about something that is slightly out of our reach ...I want to capitalize on the way that our society seems to work, and make green, help green, profile green...
...largely a yuppie-type crowd. A lot of the great quotes come from non-yuppies, especially the homeless. The best quotes are from the intersection of these different socioeconomic classes in New York. OHinLA would be boring because it would be about celebrities and everyone is in their car. But in New York you have the yuppie standing right next to the ranting homeless man on the subway platform. No matter how much money you have or where you come from, everyone is right next to each other. OHinNY is this weird way of bringing together these different people that...
...spoke to him a few weeks ago, he had brought in Swiss chard, cherries, scallions and mint. This produce hadn?t suffered a ride from California or South America, like most of the vegetables you ordinarily eat. ?I pick the Swiss chard and put it in the car. They wash it off in the kitchen, and then we eat it. I can?t tell you the difference that makes,? Kary told...