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...hard to find examples of questionable legal outcomes like the case of the Zhuangtouying four. The plight of blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng, who was given a four-year sentence on charges of inciting public disorder last year after he exposed the forced sterilization of women as part of a provincial family-planning campaign, is one example regularly cited by activists. New York-based Human Rights Watch and others say they have recorded numerous instances of individuals who protested court decisions being beaten, tortured, imprisoned and even killed as local officials sought to bury controversial or embarrassing cases...
...national strategy to achieve this ideal. The opportunity for postsecondary education is far too valuable in today’s society to be denied to anyone based on anything other than his or her own choice. From a purely economic standpoint, the wage paid to a graduate of a four-year college is about 45 percent more on average than that paid to someone who holds only a high school diploma. A college education also opens avenues to a more fulfilling life, increasing occupational opportunities, providing a nationwide (and even worldwide) social and professional network, and broadening students?...
...though, Chrysler is in the red (it lost $2 billion in the first quarter alone) and will soon be on its own, and the UAW's four-year contracts with the D3 expire in September. All eyes in Detroit are on how much Cerberus--a 15-year-old firm with a reputation for cost cutting--will be able to squeeze...
...Nationalism, based on the Orthodox faith, has been emerging as the Putin regime's major ideological resource. Thursday's rite sealed the four-year long effort by Putin, beginning in September 2003, to have the Moscow Patriarchate take over its rival American-based cousin and launch a new globalized Church as his state's main ideological arm and a vital foreign policy instrument. In February press conference, Putin equated Russia's "traditional confessions" to its nuclear shield, both, he said, being "components that strengthen Russian statehood and create necessary preconditions for internal and external security of the country." Professor Sergei...
...review was about one year. The Faculty endorsed the Core Curriculum in spring 1978, and the new program took effect for freshmen entering in fall 1979. Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, who has taught at Harvard since the 1960s, recalled a two-year transition period in which both general education and Core courses were offered. He said the details of the Core’s implementation were also left to a committee.In an interview before yesterday’s meeting, Mendelsohn said that professors were ready to move on from a four-year debate marked...