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...happier days, Zhu had been vice mayor of Harbin-a man of considerable power in Heilongjiang province. But in 1997, he had fallen from grace in spectacular style when a local court sentenced him to life in jail as one of 67 officials indicted for taking bribes while supervising the conversion of Harbin's bomb shelters into an underground shopping mall. Accused of pocketing some $112,000 in bribes, Zhu attracted huge media attention on the mainland. He was fictionalized first in a best-selling book, Covering the Tracks, then in a hit TV mini-series. Now, his drama...
While the frequency of attacks against U.S. troops has fallen to 17 a day from a high of more than 40 in November, the number of Americans dying in Iraq has remained stuck at about one a day for two months. Three G.I.s were killed by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad last Saturday, raising the war's U.S. death toll to 500; a suicide bombing on Sunday targeted coalition headquarters in Baghdad, killing two Americans and at least 18 Iraqis. U.S. officials in Iraq fear that assaults are increasingly being directed by jihadists who are leading cells that employ...
...Oreal bought Mininurse, a Chinese mass skin-care brand with a 5% market share. It bought a majority stake last year of Shu Uemura, a Japanese concern in which it owned a 35% stake. In the past decade, Western Europe's share of L'Oreal's overall sales has fallen about 12%, while the share of regions like Asia has risen more than 20%. L'Oreal also has its eye on India and Mexico. "It's a superb sales model," says Andy Smith, an analyst at Citigroup Smith Barney, of L'Oreal. "They've managed to identify...
...army-green tents on concrete slabs. The warehouses of the World Food Program are made of canvas. Still, the locals consider themselves relatively fortunate: though fighting has continued in other parts of the country, Rumbek has been calm since 2001. "The level of insecurity, of trauma, has really fallen," says Paul Macuei Malok, 51, Rumbek county commissioner. "We have embarked on development," he says, then corrects himself. "Not development really, but rehabilitation." Rumbek is ahead of most of the rest of the south in its recovery. A few crumbled buildings have been rebuilt and refitted with corrugated-iron roofs. Merchants...
...were ready to gather our subjects, using word of mouth and the HAVE YOU JUST FALLEN MADLY IN LOVE? poster. Just and madly were the operative words. We sought only candidates who were so intensely in love that they could hardly eat or sleep, people whose romantic feelings were fresh, vivid, uncontrollable and passionate...