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...Atlanta Journal Constitution, he decided to bypass the CDC's efforts to find care and transport for him and instead returned to the U.S,. via Prague and Montreal. He came back, he said, so he could get the best treatment for his condition. According to new reports, Speaker's father-in-law is himself a microbiologist...
...family home. "We played mah-jongg from seven o'clock until two in the morning." He pauses for a moment, overcome by emotion, then continues. "Every time I visit him in the jail he asks me the same thing," Yang says, without looking up. "'When can I come home, father? When can I come home?' I don't believe there is justice in China anymore...
...spent some time with him. PITT: You just cost him votes. CLOONEY: I've actually had that conversation with him, just saying "Look, I'll give you whatever support you need-including staying completely away from you." Actors have done a lot of damage to candidates lately. My father ran for Congress in 2004, and it was "Hollywood vs. the Heartland!" My father was Hollywood. PITT: I'm just hungry for some honesty and leadership. And I'm following them all-on all sides. DAMON: I'm an Obama guy too. I think a lot of the problems...
...When Aliyev married Dariga Nazarbayeva in 1984, it was seen as a love affair within Kazakhstan's political elite (Aliyev's father was the former Health Minister). Aliyev slowly rose in the government until the fall of 2001, when his alleged collusion with top officials against Nazarbayev lead to a political crisis. Some Kazakh political sources say that only Dariga's intervention saved Aliyev from the wrath of an enraged Nazarbayev, who then exiled Aliyev to Vienna as ambassador. Aliyev was able to return only in July 2005, when an appeased Nazarbayev promoted him to First Deputy Foreign Minister...
...Aliyev has other enemy in-laws. His wife's sister and her husband are rivals for power within the family as well. As for now, however, the all-powerful father-in-law has had Kazakhstan's Prosecutor General's Office close down several print, broadcast and online outlets of the media-holding company controlled by Aliyev and Dariga. That vast empire will be now redistributed among the President's supporters. The police searched Dariga's house, in spite of her immunity as a member of parliament. "Getting rid of Aliyev is good news," says one analyst in Kazakhstan...