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...trickled down to China's provincial leaders, who are widely viewed as aloof and corrupt. Without any recourse on the local level, the mainland's disenfranchised see little choice but to head to the capital. Their increasingly vocal calls for justice show that despite China's economic expansion, many citizens are simmering with discontent. NPC petition offices, one of many venues in Beijing for accepting citizen complaints, say they received about 20,000 petitions last year, up 30% from 2002. The success rate of China's petitioners is infinitesimal. Bin, a Chinese photographer who has spent much of the past...
...Projected health-care expenditure per U.S. citizen in 2003, according to a government agency. The aggregate figure is $1.7 trillion, a record 15.3% of the country's gross domestic product...
...efforts Fried became one of 14 nominees for the Hockey Humanitarian Award, awarded to college hockey’s finest citizen. Fried was not on the list of five finalists announced last month, but as Smith said, “he wasn’t doing that for the recognition...
...Eastwood's Mystic River received a sheaf of rapturous reviews and did O.K. business. At 73, the old cowpoke might ride sentiment to take an Oscar. But he got Picture and Director statuettes for Unforgiven in 1993 and the Irving G. Thalberg Award two years later. A senior citizen can use only so many retirement gifts...
...like it may become a staple of public discourse. Dyke warmed to his role as the popular boss victimized by Hutton, complaining that the government had gotten to pick its own referee and that the report was legally peculiar. He promised a detailed rebuttal. Campbell is now a private citizen - he left Downing Street last fall as he realized his high-profile campaign to slam the BBC over Gilligan had drained his effectiveness. Last week he could not stay off the airwaves or resist trumpeting his sense of vindication. Any more turmoil or high-profile errors from BBC News - which...