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China's ideological Brahmins have cut a deal with the nation's spiritual leaders--as long as your religions support the regime, we'll let you exist. But there's a flip side: Step off that narrow path, and you'll go to jail. "Prison," Chinese priests and nuns still say, "is our seminary." In 1982 China's constitution was amended to permit freedom of religion. But that's not the same as freedom of belief or freedom from government interference. Thus while China has officially produced 1,000 Catholic clerics in the past 18 years, all government-certified Catholics...
...phone to the newspapers Thursday, telling the Washington Post that Bradley?s days as an "outsider" are numbered, promising to dredge up every compromise and change of heart in the former senator?s 18-year record. (They?re likely to start with Bradley?s recent Iowa flip-flop on ethanol subsidies, which he once called "highway robbery.") Then there?s the debates ?- or at least the debates Gore has begun pushing Bradley for ?- which will for now consist of a near-debate "joint appearance" at an October 27 town hall meeting in New Hampshire, the only confrontation Bradley has agreed...
...This bill is a pure sham," National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League president Kate Michelman told CNN. "It?s sponsored and promoted by those who want to take away a woman?s right to choose." The rhetoric on the flip side of the issue is no less passionate. Rep. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) explained to CNN, "This bill doesn?t erode a woman?s right to choose; it puts limits on criminals? rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman...
...first year or two was kind of disheartening," says President and Founder Daniel A. Cousin '00. "We had more graduate students than undergrads, but in the last year that really flip-flopped...
...legions of purchasing-order and sales executives--those who, as part of their current jobs, are wined, dined and bequeathed free tickets to every sporting event imaginable--that the Web is a better way to do business. Efficiency may not sound all that attractive to them. On the flip side, B2B companies are businesses like any other. Many will go under in the postboom shakeout that will inevitably take place. Says Mark Walsh, CEO and president of VerticalNet, a creator of 43 online industry-specific trading communities (commonly referred to as verticals): "What you see today...