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Bedraggled and wet, Gao Biao stands in front of the Guangzhou train station with an umbrella in his hand and stares glumly at the crush of people in front of him. For the past year the 27-year-old has worked for a cosmetics factory in this southern Chinese city, and now he's trying to get home to see his mother near Suzhou in eastern China, 20 hours away by rail. He's going to miss his connection. Around him hundreds of people, all hoping to find seats, push toward an opening in the metal fence surrounding the station...
...Gao Biao stands in front of the Guangzhou train station with an umbrella in his hand, staring into the crush of people ahead of him. The 27-year-old has spent the past year hard at work in a cosmetics factory in this southern Chinese city, and now he's trying to get back home for the holidays. The trip to his hometown outside the central city of Suzhou takes more than 20 hours - if he can board. Around him, hundreds of people push towards an opening in the barrier surrounding the station. A police officer standing behind a fence...
...Back near the station entrance, under giant signs proclaiming "Unify the motherland" and "Vitalize the nation," Gao is no more sanguine about his own chances of making it home. The hands of the giant neon green clock tick closer to his 9:56 p.m. departure time, but he gets no closer to the front of the line. "This is a real headache, but there's nothing I can do," he says. "I don't think I'll be getting on that train...
...still growing in France. Earlier generations of French writers - from Molière, Hugo, Balzac and Flaubert to Proust, Sartre, Camus and Malraux - did not lack for an audience abroad. Indeed, France claims a dozen Nobel literature laureates - more than any other country - though the last one, Gao Xingjian in 2000, writes in Chinese...
...important provision in light of the fact that some IGs have actually shrunk their staff. Unfortunately these kind of safeguards would come too late to address the critical nomination process. Nominees need to be better vetted, perhaps by a panel process or by the independent Government Accountability Office (GAO), Light suggests, before they ever appear before the Senate. They also probably need better oversight while they are in office. Even in extraordinary situations - such as when an Integrity Committee headed by a senior FBI official recommended the dismissal of NASA's IG Robert Cobb because he had alerted the NASA...