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...Beijing's Tiananmen Square. The last time, in November, she took her four-year-old daughter and unfurled a yellow banner reading THE FALUN LAW IS THE UNIVERSAL LAW! Police jailed Liu and threatened to dispatch her to China's labor-camp gulag. Her parents, terrified, begged her to disavow her beliefs; her husband smacked her face; her boss threatened her job. Liu waved them away. Then someone brought her weeping daughter to jail, and Liu's will broke. In writing, she promised never to protest again...
...Cummins alone. Chen Gang began working in 1996 for Carlsberg Brewery, the Danish firm that produces one of China's most popular beers. Police last year sentenced him to a year in a Beijing prison for practicing Falun Gong, and relatives say he was tortured when he refused to disavow his beliefs. Chen is due for release this week. He needn't bother asking for his old job back. "If a person can't work, then we have to find someone else," explains Wang Hong, head of human resources for Carlsberg...
...best way to disavow the memo is to implement the living wage and strengthen the anti-sweatshop campaign," said McKean, who is also a Crimson editor. "For me, though, that memo is a troubling indicator of what might be to come...
...disavow them of that during the first class," Zigler says. "We are people...
...secretary won't necessarily disavow any knowledge of his actions, but James Rubin's visit to Kosovo may well be Mission Impossible. Madeleine Albright's spokesman visited the divided town of Mitrovica on Monday, a day after warning Kosovo's ethnic-Albanian leaders to end violence in the territory or risk a U.S. withdrawal. But despite having assiduously cultivated relations with leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army in the wake of the war, Washington may have little leverage over them. "Despite the formal disbanding of the KLA and the presence of the peacekeepers, violence against Serbs and other minorities hasn...