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When a young lawyer named Zhou Dan started writing about being gay on Chinese websites in 2001, he hoped his honesty would help combat prejudice. Homosexuality was--and still is--very much in the closet in China; Beijing had just taken it off an official list of mental disorders. Zhou's entries, signed with his own name, had an unintended consequence. Gay men from around China who had faced workplace discrimination, blackmail and even prison time started to seek his legal counsel. So Zhou, 31, decided to act on his conviction that "a good lawyer should know not only...
...First-class passengers on cross-country Continental flights are wooed with fragrances by Prada and Ghirardelli chocolates. United has given premium flyers bags packed with hundreds of dollars' worth of goodies, including luxury toiletries, snacks and teas, Tempur-Pedic pillows and advance copies of books like Digital Fortress, by Dan Brown. Some customers have even paid to change flights to get the bags, says a United rep. Now if they'd only pass a few back to the folks in coach. --By Jeninne Lee-St. John
...story of the desecration of the Koran. Our mainstream media outlets are much too quick with the mea culpas. How about a little tenacity when it comes to standing up to the White House? Shouldn't Bush's spotty National Guard record have been pursued instead of Dan Rather's sloppy reporting? Confidential sources prefer to remain unnamed because they fear retribution. What do editors fear? Is there still a free press? Paul Lennemann Glenwood, Iowa, U.S. Perhaps the first line of Time's story suggested the reason for the media's current problems: "Journalists strive to be influential." Members...
...story of the desecration of the Koran. Our mainstream media outlets are much too quick with the mea culpas. How about a little tenacity when it comes to standing up to the White House? Shouldn't Bush's spotty National Guard record have been pursued instead of Dan Rather's sloppy reporting? Confidential sources prefer to remain unnamed because they fear retribution. What do editors fear? Is there still a free press...
...easier to be a woman in television news today than it was when I started. There is no question about it, and the pay is better. It will be interesting to see--now that Dan [Rather] has left, and Tom [Brokaw] has left, and Peter [Jennings] is off at least temporarily--after the all-male anchor troika, whether any of those people are replaced by women...