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...family. Her teacher sexually assaults her. A fire kills her lesbian lover. Her boyfriend leaves her. Illness takes her mother. The pain of these tragedies awakens Niuniu to the reality of life in Beijing, where men are "wolves" and women "have a vague feeling that they are forever in danger." It's a place that is emotionally and sexually repressed, that pits student against student in a brutal exam system, that values gossip about people more than connections between them. Spiraling into despair, Niuniu notes: "You don't have to be from a strange place to be a stranger...
...says Ken Courtis, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia, in large part because "there has been a tremendous attempt in Japan to produce more with less." The specter of American consumers cutting back on spending because of steep increases at the gas pump may, in fact, pose a bigger danger to Japan than oil shortages. "As long as it's a short-term [price] rise, the economy can deal with it," said Heizo Takenaka, Japan's Financial Services Minister, at a recent press conference...
...piggy-faced toady who can?t help admiring his victim. ?He listens, that?s his trick,? he says of Brandt. The Chancellor, impersonated by Roger Allam (the original Javert in the musical ?Les Miserables?) with a puffed-out chest that shows awareness of his charismatic statesmanship, relishes danger, even the threat of a spy in his bosom: ?The merest possibility that Gunther is not what he seems makes him infinitely more tolerable...
...EVIDENCE Kerry's crewmates say the boat was in clear danger. Besides, Kerry won the medal for leadership during the whole battle, and Elliott describes the entire episode in the citation he wrote. Elliott later told the Boston Globe he had made a terrible mistake in signing the affidavit. Then he signed a new affidavit standing behind the first. When newspapers questioned Kerry's account in 1996, Elliott went to Boston to uphold it. The commander of one of the other two boats, Chicago Tribune editor William Rood, corroborated Kerry's story last week...
...five-hour-a-day Hebrew class in the West Bank settlement of Ofra, just over a barren hill from the Palestinian town of Ramallah. Only two weeks ago, Zerah, 46, immigrated to the heart of one of the world's most violent conflicts. But he feels he's left danger behind - in Paris. "I was afraid for my children there," says Zerah, who brought his wife and two youngsters to Israel. "My son couldn't walk to the Jewish school with his yarmulke on." Zerah followed his brother Marc who, in 1999, gave up a thriving gynecological practice in Paris...