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...Beijing daily Wen Wei Po and a sociologist who often appeared on Chinese television to promote government policy are being detained for anti-Chinese activities? According to Lau, the 55-year-old reporter was picked up by Chinese security personnel on April 22 while in Guangzhou to collect a top-secret manuscript by a friend of Zhao Ziyang, the popular ex-Premier purged for opposing the Tiananmen crackdown, who died under house arrest in January. Although the manuscript's exact contents are not clear, a previous memoir by the friend, Zong Fengming, who was able to visit Zhao under house...
EXHUMED. The body of EMMETT TILL, African- American teenager whose 1955 murder near Money, Miss., after he allegedly whistled at a white female store clerk helped galvanize the civil rights movement; to collect evidence for an investigation reopened last year after a documentary filmmaker told authorities he believed several who participated in the 14-year-old's murder are still alive; in Alsip, Ill. The clerk's husband and his half brother were tried and acquitted by an all-white jury but later admitted their involvement to Look magazine...
Ryan A. Petersen ’08, one of the major proponents of the failed bill, said that he would be collecting signatures in order to send the bill to a student referendum in the fall if the UC failed to pass it in today’s meeting. He must collect 640 signatures of enrolled students to send the bill to a student referendum...
...SHARON: He understands the dangers of terror. But at the same time he signed an agreement with the most radical terrorist organizations. In this agreement, he took upon himself not to collect their weapons, not to dismantle them. I'm afraid that might cause him many difficulties in the future. I think it was a mistake...
...dispense with the mythology right up front. A driver's license has never been just about driving. When the first ones were issued in the early 1900s, the idea was to collect fees, not to test driving skills. More recently, revoking licenses became a way to punish people who didn't pay child support or, in Wisconsin, shovel snow off their walks. In its most coveted form, the license is proof of age--or of fraud, as the case may be. In college, for example, I was not Amanda Ripley from New Jersey; I was Amanda Jones from California...