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...What the communist leadership saw looked eerily like the party itself in its heyday. The organization was hierarchically structured, with neighborhood groups, like cells, acting autonomously but in contact with higher levels. Li taught his practice through tapes and essays, which followers studied, and no one was permitted to interpret or question his words. He taught that physical suffering?including, possibly, the type meted out in prison camps?helps practitioners improve their karma and should be courted. Since the crackdown began, Li has vehemently attacked the party and its "evil" leader Jiang Zemin. He once praised demonstrators who "lose everything...
...visit to a Falun Gong safe house requires the kind of spycraft found in espionage novels. A journalist downloads an e-mail encryption program from the Internet and uses it to send his temporary mobile-phone number, the type that doesn't require registration, to a Falun Gong contact. He follows instructions to enter a crowded restaurant as someone outside secretly keeps watch. The coast is clear. He drives by taxi to a nearby market, walks through it, exits and finds another cab waiting to take him to the safe house. "We've figured out a system," says the organizer...
Willett said that Rudenstine expressed no concern at the unusual arrangement and suggested that the pair serve jointly from his first contact with each...
...FORGET THE NET. FORGET THE ADS. No more than 15% of jobs are found this way. Almost all successful searches start with people you already know. Open the classified ads and click on the Internet job site only after 7 p.m. Spend most of your time interviewing and making contacts to set up the next interview. The newspaper and Net can be valuable sources--for their local news and business sections. There you will find info about companies coming to town or expansions by existing ones, including details on key people to contact...
...Suddenly Shu Qi is on everyone's must-have list, and not just to appear in her undies or pitch beer. She does a dramatic star turn in Visible Secret, which debuted in Hong Kong two weeks ago. That film, about a girl with the ability to contact spirits and see ghosts, has the imprimatur of Ann Hui, one of Hong Kong's few art-house directors. Its three-day box office opening in Hong Kong set an all-time record, eclipsing Ring, Hideo Nakata's horror flick. Meanwhile, Joan Chen, former-leading-lady-turned-auteur with...