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...Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, where opposition calls for reforms have been repeatedly repressed. Belarussian leader Alexander Lukashenko put down a protest over the weekend, and some analysts believe the dominoes could even start falling in the Kremlin's direction, though Vladimir Putin's grip seems pretty secure. "Nobody rushed to defend Akayev," says Alexey Malashenko of the Carnegie Moscow Center. "All these post-Soviet authoritarian regimes are proving colossuses with feet of clay...
...clearing their names, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior. Still, other Catholic clergymen have appeared on StB lists, and last month the Slovak Bishops' Conference issued an apology: "We concede that some clergy were in the service of the StB, and we don't want to defend them," it said. Despite the controversy, the Slovak government backs the UPN's efforts. In Lithuania, where an explosive list of 60 alleged KGB "reservists" was posted on the Web last month, high-profile politicians have been targeted. The list included Foreign Minister Antanas Valionis and two other senior Lithuanian officials...
...have earned world-class box office, while the gradual liberalization of the mainland market means the demand for Chinese-language movies is only going to grow. If Hong Kong's smartest producers can leverage the city's international financial networks, China experience and stable of stars, then it could defend its position as the beating heart of Chinese cinema. "There are tremendous challenges and tremendous opportunities," says Nansun Shi, one of Hong Kong's most respected producers. "We're at a crossroads and we need to get this right, in a very short time...
...resistance by the opposition KMT and PFP parties, which claim that the weapons are overpriced. Wu Tung-yeh, a professor at National Chengchi University's Institute of International Relations, believes the island has let its guard down. "Taiwan," he says, "will have neither will nor the ability to defend itself against China...
...legislators all but scorned baseball executives' attempts to defend their drug policy. Commissioner Bud Selig, looking at times pained, at times as if he just lost his dog, claimed he didn't become concerned about baseball's steroid problem until the hulking McGwire admitted he took androstenedione in 1998 (andro was legal in baseball at the time). "No manager, no general manager, nobody ever came to me in the '90s," said Selig. At best, it showed big-league naiveté, since those drugs were clearly baseball's dirty little secret in the 1990s. Said Massachusetts Representative Steven Lynch, a Democrat...