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...women's doubles gold in the 2004 Olympics, they're headed for center court. Last week, in a tough match against Australian Samantha Stosur and American Lisa Raymond, China's YAN ZI and ZHENG JIE survived two match points to win the Australian Open women's doubles final-and claim China's first-ever Grand Slam title...
...live TV for fabricating parts of his 2003 book, A Million Little Pieces. "I really feel duped," said Winfrey, who chose the memoir for her book club, boosting it to last year's second-best-selling title. After thesmokinggun.com revealed that key details in the book--like Frey's claim of a three-month prison stay--never happened, Winfrey stood by him, calling in to Larry King Live days later to offer support. But after two weeks of considering, Winfrey changed her mind. She made Frey squirm and squirm and then brought on guests to make him squirm some more...
...That's not a view Onassis' grandchild shares. With assets ranging from the shipping fleets to property in Paris, London and St. Moritz to development projects spanning the globe, the foundation has the heft and reach of a multinational corporation - and an idiosyncratic structure all its own. Athina's claim stems from the foundation's statutes, which state that a direct descendant of Onassis shall be eligible for the presidency upon reaching the age of 21. That provision was added by Christina, and not devised by her father. Aristotle Onassis was uncompromising in affairs of the heart, brutally dumping opera...
...roots behind for a job in the big city. His younger sibling stayed in the family's hometown, the hamlet of Dongzhou in southern China's Guangdong province. In early December, when Lin returned for a visit, the brothers joined a protest against a nearby power-station project. Locals claim the plant is being built on village rice paddies sold by municipal officials to the power company without proper compensation to the villagers. Moreover, the project involved filling in most of a lake that had supported generations of Dongzhou fishermen. The protest ended violently, with at least three people killed...
...officials aren't providing much guidance. Only one police official has been detained in connection with the Dongzhou killings. A month after the shootings, police continue to arrest villagers and block outsiders from entering Dongzhou to investigate whether the official body count of three is too low, as villagers claim. Power-plant construction, residents have been informed, will proceed. Nevertheless, some locals hold out hope that Beijing, which earlier this month targeted rural graft as one of its biggest priorities for 2006, will clean up the mess. "If only the central government knew the truth, they would help us," says...