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Shortly before 1:30 a.m. Saturday morning, a security guard at the law school reported that two men, one wearing a ski mask, were using a crowbar to break into the vending machines in the tunnels under the International Legal Studies (ILS) department. By the time the guard spotted them, police found that three machines had already been burglarized...
...quid pro quo may turn out to be legislation to boost Taiwan's defenses - only 50 or 60 House Democrats are currently on board. In a speech at Johns Hopkins University Wednesday, President Clinton appealed to Democratic skeptics by painting WTO membership as a kind of liberalizing crowbar that would force open China's closed society. But the fact that Beijing's human rights record actually deteriorated over the six years since the President unlinked trade issues from human rights may reinforce skepticism. In the end, though, China's human rights record may not be labor's primary concern - like...
...need no stinkin' Gillooly! Former ice princess TONYA HARDING, 29, was arrested last week after allegedly beating the pulp out of live-in boyfriend Darren Silver--and she didn't need a crowbar or an accomplice to do the job. According to Silver, the couple had just returned from an excursion to a video-poker arcade when Harding attacked, "hooking me like Mike Tyson." Silver attempted to flee on his motorcycle, only to run face first into a hubcap Harding had hurled, Frisbee-style, in his direction. Police on the scene reported that both Harding and Silver were intoxicated...
...unemployment." The more hard-line elements in China's leadership have slowed economic reforms precisely out of fear that the inevitable unemployment will spark social chaos. So by signing on to the WTO deal, Jiang has come down firmly on the side of the reformists - and created a powerful crowbar with which Premier Zhu Rongji can prize open the economy and ensure its long-term growth despite the short-term pain. After 13 years of negotiations, the U.S. and China have finally agreed on a comprehensive set of rules to govern their increasingly interwoven economic relationship. But selling that deal...
...constrained by domestic political concerns - WTO membership has become a flash point in the epic struggle between Chinese hard-liners and reformists for control of the country's economy. The reformers, led by Premier Zhu, hope to use the strict open-market conditions attached to WTO membership as a crowbar with which to open up China's economy. But hard-liners, fearing the social unrest that rapid reforms may bring, are digging in their heels against some of the conditions demanded by the industrialized nations. Despite renewed negotiation efforts, the changing domestic political climate at both ends has rendered...