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...They are into everything that pays: car theft, gambling, prostitution, kidnap for ransom and even, astonishingly, petrol. The bulk of the bribes received by convicted customs chief Zhao came from smuggling gasoline. The racket worked like this: a tanker anchors in international waters and waits for motor launches to gather round. An auction follows, and the buyers smuggle the fuel to shore in barrels to sell to the nearest state-run station, no import duty paid. "The whole of southern China is running on smuggled gas," says Zheng. "And half the time, the government is controlling...
Members of the Youth Action Coalition said they think they have the needed support from the council, but that they will continue working to gather support...
...longtime member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Faggert helped gather 212,000 signatures in favor of the successful effort to leave the rebel symbol on the state flag. The flag has flown since 1894. (In other Southern states, the Confederate symbol wasn't raised until after federal antisegregation legislation was enacted in the 1960s, a fact that routs the "history-and-heritage" argument the way Grant routed Lee.) Faggert tells me that anyone who understands history respects the flag and rejects the notion that it is a sign of slavery or hatred. It was under that flag that...
...grief. But they have their expectations in check. "In the early stages I wanted to see the execution because I was hoping to hear 'I'm sorry' from McVeigh," says Tom Kight, who is raising his eight-year-old granddaughter after his stepdaughter's death. "But from what I gather there will be no remorse. The execution is just an end to one part of this. It's not closure." Priscilla Salyers, who was critically wounded, is watching not as "part of a healing process" but in solidarity with fellow victims...
...have a workspace designed for serendipitous innovation," he says. "The hope here is that if you can gather interesting people together, interesting ideas will come...