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...free flow of information can operate in a tightly controlled country. Beijing routinely blocks websites, including this magazine's, that report on what's happening in China, and it is intensifying a campaign against cybercafEs, closing down almost 2,000 in the past few weeks. AOL's CEO Gerald Levin, who flew to Beijing for the announcement, stressed in a press conference that the company's commitment to editorial independence applies "to the journalistic enterprises within our company from TIME magazine to CNN," while AOL's communications service "respects the cultures and the different regulations in each country." A Legend...
...even temporary placards for traveling in someone else's car--drew national attention by applying his ruling to so many at one time. His move sparked a debate on the rights of these offenders and the merits of public shaming. "We don't brand people in America," argues Gerald Rogen, president of the Coastal Bend Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. "And we damn sure don't punish the offender's family as well as the offender...
...INTERNATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE A bank open before breakfast? It's the surest sign of a boom. Laredo banks are open 7 to 7 daily, including Sundays. Walk into the main office of the IBC and listen: English rarely spoken here. Upstairs in the executive offices, executive vice president Gerald Schwebel explains that his mother is Mexican, his father Austrian; he went to school in Nuevo Laredo. Bilingual, binational, he is the whole global economy in a suit. Schwebel's bank, the biggest in town with assets of more than $6 billion, has a small fleet of jets...
...Seattle Mariners were bored to the point of flat-lining. Their charter had just landed at Toronto's Pearson International Airport, and everyone in the Mariners' traveling party had to slog through a tedious customs check and then claim his own luggage. As the men circled the baggage carousel, Gerald Perry, Seattle's hitting coach, began collecting $1 bills. The first guy whose luggage emerged would win the loot...
...know that the university is very conservative about [managing the endowment] and occasionally we ask each other questions about that,” says Gerald Gabrielse, professor of physics and chair of the department. “But on the other hand, on balance they’ve made it work quite well...