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...sexual assault nurse." On Bowen's behalf, protesters demonstrated outside the Lincoln courthouse, and a petition, which Bowen signed, circulated on the Internet to change Nebraska law. Because of the publicity surrounding the case, Judge Cheuvront declared a mistrial during jury selection, accusing Bowen of inciting public furor over her case. "Ms. Bowen and her friends hoped to intimidate this court and interfere with the selection of a fair and impartial jury," he wrote in his July 12 decision...
...coarse and roguish side, and throughout their marriage she saw her share of it. But he was devoted to her, and why not? On the campaign trail, she helped reassure suspicious fellow Southerners about her husband's pro-- civil rights stances. She was by his side as the furor over Vietnam overtook his presidency. And for good measure, it was Lady Bird who laid the roots for the Johnson-family wealth. In 1943 she invested $17,000 from her mother's estate in the purchase of KTBC, a small Austin radio station. Over the years it grew into a media...
Bureaucracy, corruption and lack of a free press are huge obstacles to a similar change in China, but there are some encouraging signs. In 2004 the deaths of 13 babies who were fed adulterated milk powder touched off a national furor. The state-run broadcaster CCTV airs a popular weekly program on food-safety scandals. China's leaders, says Zweig, "know that Chinese people have this sense that they deserve better." The World's Factory After a series of product recalls, from pet food to tires, American regulators are paying more attention to the goods exported to the U.S. from...
...furor in China surrounding the discovery that children and the mentally handicapped had been kidnapped and sold into slavery is showing no sign of abating. It seems increasingly likely that the controversy will mark a significant milestone in the evolution of the country's civil society. Police said they had rescued more than 500 people from forced labor in brick kilns, where they were worked 18 hours a day and beaten if they tried to escape. Some 30 arrests have been made and more are expected following a massive police rescue operation involving 35,000 officers checking 7,500 work...
...Politics has long been theater in Pakistan, and the current spectacle of a waning President and a crusading Chief Justice has the country enthralled. Three months ago Musharraf accused Chaudhry of misuse of office, leveling charges of nepotism and corruption. Chaudhry denies wrongdoing and refuses to go. The resulting furor threatens Musharraf's increasingly tenuous hold on power. Musharraf says he's the only leader capable of reining in the Islamic militants that threaten Pakistan, but his detractors claim that his stranglehold on power has sidelined moderates and delivered Pakistan's government into the hands of an extremist minority. Chaudhry...