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...after trying to leave his home without official permission, Chen was again bundled into a police van. No one heard from him for months. Finally in mid-June, the local police announced that he was being held in prison on charges of damaging property and organizing a mob to disturb traffic. High-profile lawyers in Beijing flocked to his defense, calling the charges trumped-up. Meanwhile, the international profile of a blind man from rural China was steadily growing. TIME had named Chen to its annual list of 100 influential people. The U.S. State Department called for his release. Chen...
...Alberts explained in February that he had first learned of Summers’ decision from a New York Times reporter, but was contacted by a Corporation member shortly afterward. “This did not disturb me,” Alberts wrote in an e-mail, “as early notification of the Overseers would have likely caused the story to leak to the press prematurely...
...indeed, the bombardment didn?t disturb the Iraqis all that much. In fact, some simply shrugged it off. "The Iraqis I spoke with were actually quite satisfied and pleased" following Desert Fox, said Charles Duelfer, the WMD expert who went looking for such contraband inside Iraq both before and after the U.S. invasion. "One individual I spoke with said, `Well, gee, if we knew that that was all you were going to do? - meaning the four days of bombing - `we would have ended this [standoff with U.N. arms inspectors], you know, earlier,?" Duelfer told a Senate panel in 2004. Following...
...just been vanquished in ourselves: it is our cherished small-town ways. The languid passage of the days, the slowness of the buses, the sleepy authorities, the shortsighted political bickering, the unambitious artisans, our taste for déjà vu and distrust of anything unexpected which could disturb our cozy habits. All that succumbed to the dynamic energy of Germany and its buzzing hives." Today, it is no longer a warlike Germany that buzzes but an industrious China, and soon India. As in previous ruptures, France today faces a major choice. It can refuse to fight in the global...
...found out when I got a call from [The New York Times], but I was phoned by a member of the Corporation shortly afterward,” Alberts wrote in an e-mail. “This did not disturb me, as early notification of the Overseers would have likely caused the story to leak to the press prematurely...