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China's President isn't used to being heckled. But last Thursday, as Hu Jintao addressed reporters at the White House during his U.S. visit, a woman from a newspaper run by the meditation sect Falun Gong loudly interrupted him, calling him a "murderer" and threatening that his days were numbered. Among other allegations, Falun Gong, which is banned in China, accuses Chinese hospitals of harvesting organs from executed prisoners - including some of the sect's own members - and selling them for transplants. But Falun Gong activists aren't the only ones concerned about China's organ trade...
China's President isn't used to being heckled. But last Thursday, as Hu Jintao addressed reporters at the White House during his U.S. visit, a woman from a newspaper run by the meditation sect Falun Gong loudly interrupted him, calling him a "murderer" and threatening that his days were numbered. Among other allegations, Falun Gong, which is banned in China, accuses Chinese hospitals of harvesting organs from executed prisoners-including some of the sect's own members-and selling them for transplants...
...without any real progress on these issues, Hu's first visit to the White House was marked more by visuals than anything else. There was the well-choreographed arrival on the South Lawn, which was upset by a "journalist" for a newspaper run by the Falun Gong, who protested China's crackdown on the religious sect. "Of course we knew she was with a Falun Gong paper," said a senior Administration official trying to explain the snafu. "But if we'd kept her out, the world would have screamed that we were guilty of censorship." So her cries came...
...stay in contact more readily,” Nelson wrote in an e-mail.No linking groups were assigned to the same House, she added.Though linking may bring about more interhouse interaction, recent incidents suggest that House loyalty and competitiveness with other Houses will be alive and well.The Adams House gong, which usually adorns its dining hall, was stolen last week, as it has been many times throughout the House’s history.The Adams House Committee (HoCo), believing a Leverett House resident was the perpetrator, swiped Leverett’s freshmen welcome t-shirts in retaliation earlier this week, according...
...rural socialism has finally given the old guard its opportunity. Last summer, leading Marxist economist Liu Guoguang fired a warning shot: "We must make sure leaders at every level are really Marxists, instead of having a red [communist] surface and white [capitalist] core." Then, noted Peking University law professor Gong Xiantian assailed the property law draft for "copying capitalist civil law like a slave...