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The Congressional-Executive Commission on China credited Communist Party leaders with increasing legal protections for those who abstain from unauthorized political and religious activities, but noted the safeguards are selectively enforced. "Against persons the Party deems to pose a threat to its supremacy, officials wield the legal system as a...
The commission veered from its central focus to such recent issues as food and product safety, which also affects foreign consumers of Chinese exports. The report praised Beijing for reforms, but complained of "inadequate and inconsistent implementation, corruption and a lack of regulatory incentives." Worse, the government discouraged consumer organizations...
Even at the retail level, luxury-goods houses are falling over themselves to commission in-store art installations. Last year Louis Vuitton ordered up an installation by Olafur Eliasson for its Christmas windows in 360 stores around the world. Similarly, the Jil Sander store in Chicago has just tapped local...
For years the floor show--rather, the parking-lot show--at the High Elevations Bar & Restaurant in the busy northeastern Pennsylvania village of White Haven starred Teddy, a bigger-than-average black bear that Dumpster-dived, chased his butt in circles and all but rode a tiny bicycle. That is...
In its first week of sales “Halo 3” grossed over $300 million dollars. Quite a lot of people, undoubtedly many of them adolescents, couldn’t wait to get their hands on an updated game that boasts better graphics and new weapons for the...