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...reaction of China's communist leaders has been ambivalent. Knowing that its very legitimacy is at stake, the government has expressed sympathy for worker grievances, extending unemployment benefits and passing new laws designed to curb employer abuses. Blame has been heaped on Taiwanese, Hong Kong and South Korean manufacturers, and the official All-China Federation of Trade Unions (A.C.F.T.U.) has been encouraged to organize workers in foreign- owned factories. But at the same time Beijing has made clear that it will not tolerate unsanctioned labor organizing. Worker protests have been broken up, often brutally, by police. Labor dissidents have been...
...especially hate the French for aiding what they consider a genocidal government in 1990. They call the French move "an act of war." While such threats chill the rest of Europe, TIME Paris bureau chief Thomas A. Sancton says France, fueled by public opinion, feels "a special mission" to curb bloodletting in French-speaking Rwanda and wants more than a defensive role...
Whether or not Pearl Jam's accusations against Ticketmaster are valid, law- enforcement officials are trying hard to curb the far more significant problem of illegal ticket scalping. According to authorities, organized crime is deeply involved in the illicit reselling of tickets. When a $25 ticket can ultimately sell for $500, the difference amounts to a large chunk of untraceable cash -- a phrase that is pure music to a mobster's ears. Police sources told Time last week that the Mob runs some scalping operations in New York and other large cities. Blocks of tickets earmarked by performers for charities...
...however, does not mean that fans will have access to all the best seats, since corporate sponsors and other powerful fans can still pull strings legally to buy up huge blocks of prime tickets for all the key events. Pearl Jam's campaign against Ticketmaster will do nothing to curb such practices. So long as people with plenty of cash are willing to pay a premium to sit down front, some fans will be more equal than others at the box office...
Will the crackdown curb illegal software duplication...