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...though it was wiped off the Internet within 24 hours and Chinese media were barred from covering the case. The misconduct Huang alleges is almost banal?he says local officials deprived residents of their homes and manipulated land prices. What makes the case sensational is the rare dragon's-eye view given by a Party insider. So far, it has done Huang little good. Local officials insist he has not been detained, but he has been intensively questioned by a team of provincial investigators staying in Lianjiang and has been ordered to stop talking about his letter...
...THAN IT LOOKS. THAT'S what a lot of Democratic voters must be thinking right about now. Last winter Democratic-primary voters played political consultant. They tried to step inside the minds of swing voters and figure out which Democratic presidential candidate could beat George W. Bush. With an eye cast coldly on November, they rejected the man who had first won their hearts, Howard Dean, and flocked to the more "electable" choice, John Kerry. Among New Hampshire voters who said beating Bush was their biggest concern, Kerry beat Dean by a whopping 52 points...
...Muslims," says an official. "I can see him looking down his nose at them." Lindh also spends his days poring over his fan mail, which so far has included at least one marriage proposal. "When people talk to him about his CNN interview, he gets a glint in his eye and a little smile," says the official. "He's definitely into the fact that he's famous." --By Siobhan Morrissey
...sophomore at the University of Denver, loaded up on what he calls "space-saver stuff" ("If you don't have crates, you don't have anything"). He also purchased dishes, pots, pans, a 25-in. TV and a PlayStation2. But once Bixenmann was on campus, what really caught his eye was another student's stiletto-shoe-shaped chair. But he drew the line at another's espresso maker: "I thought that was a little too much of a frill. You know what I mean?" Yes, Kyle...
...temptation to take on more risk is definitely there," says Nancy Everett, chief investment officer of the Virginia Retirement System, which manages $38 billion, and this year boosted its hedge-fund allocation by two-thirds, to 5% of assets. For that reason, she says, "you should keep an eye on what your hedge funds are up to if you have a hedge-fund program...