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...based bonuses.) In an open letter to authorities last week, Chen Feng, the Daily reporter who broke the Sun Zhigang story, wrote that such a crackdown, if politically inspired, could mean a big step backward for China's media. "The will of authorities," he wrote, "will be the black cloud that cages and smothers journalism...
...Somewhere between 200 and 400 militants kept 8,000 Pakistani soldiers half a mile away with a steady barrage of small-arms fire, anti-aircraft guns and rocket-propelled grenades. After a day of battle, the army commander called in helicopter gunships, jets and artillery. By Saturday night a cloud of dust hung over the area, but the army had still not defeated the militants. "We've tightened our cordon," said Sultan. "Nobody will escape...
...Gone, actually sounds better to me coming through my alarm clock speakers. I don’t think it’s a fluke—the most compelling thing about that record is how their piano is mixed to sound like it’s punching through the cloud of thin, ringing guitar and hoarse drums (and it comes across just as energized and hypnotizing as the bassline in, say, Britney’s “Toxic”). The tinny speakers simply double the effect. But the point is that the production itself is a huge part...
...SF’s confiscate Iraqi weapons, they destroy them on an abandoned range. After the SF’s collected a cartload of AK47’s, Stern was allowed to explode the weapons with a remote control bomb. “I’d see a cloud of smoke and then I’d hear the explosion,” Stern says. He was ultimately responsible for nine such bombings. Although being a student is a far cry from occupying a country, bits of Baghdad have been seeping into Stern’s life at Harvard...
...corner of a dilapidated brick coffee mill, Lindsey Bolger is deep in concentration. Outside the window, the lush cloud forest of Mexico's Veracruz state stretches to a blue-green horizon, and hummingbirds dip into the wild hibiscus. The American, 40, closes her eyes, bending over a row of 12 white cups on a round metal table. Each contains coffee from the new harvest, toasted at 400F in a small roaster on the counter. Bolger shakes each cup and sniffs deeply. "I'm looking for defects," she says. "Underripe beans, overripe beans, sour flavors, mold. If even one bean...