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DIED. Bo Yibo, 98, last surviving member of China's politically influential Eight Immortals; in Beijing. The group of veteran Communist Party leaders, purged during the Cultural Revolution, was elevated to top positions in the '80s and '90s under Deng Xiaoping. Although a conservative who supported the crackdown on Tiananmen Square protesters, Bo steadfastly embraced Deng's financial reforms--which shifted China toward a market economy--and helped successfully fend off Marxist hard-liners determined to regain economic control...
...crackdown on bandwidth hogs began after Computer Services announced in September that it had received repeated complaints from students who couldn’t connect wirelessly from their dorms...
...Putin's use of those energy resources, combined with his continuing crackdown on free speech and civil society in Russia itself, have provoked some dismay and led many observers at home and abroad to wonder in what direction he is taking his country. In January, the Kremlin briefly cut off gas supplies to neighboring Ukraine, ostensibly because of a dispute over prices. Ukraine saw the move as an attack on its pro-Western leader, President Viktor Yushchenko. That sent a chill through Europe and brought a public rebuke from U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. In December, Russia threatened...
...intended to increase protection for lawyers, but then higher authorities intervened and made it do just the opposite." The authorities' strategy, says Nicholas Becquelin, Hong Kong representative of New York-based Human Rights Watch, is a "tightening of administrative controls over lawyers on the one hand and a crackdown on the most outspoken elements on the other hand...
...Right now, I have to believe that's the case. There can be no solution to Iraq's problems without tackling the militias. And this has to happen soon. We had a chance to tackle the militias in '04 [after a U.S. crackdown against the Mahdi Army], but then people were so happy Moqtada al-Sadr agreed to join the political process that they never forced his militia to disarm...