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...Chairman Mao, China's patron saint of workers, and banners reading "The government has humiliated the people!" In the nearby province of Heilongjiang, simultaneous and similarly large worker protests occurred at the Daqing oil fields, which schoolchildren still study as the pinnacle of Chinese engineering and Maoist cradle-to-grave security. In both spots, workers were peeved, genuinely needy of some economic relief?and, most surprising, organized. Workers from one factory, Liaoyang Ferro-Alloys Plant, had tried demonstrating last October against the closure of their factory but accomplished nothing. So they reached out to other workers. According to labor activists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Working Man Blues | 3/24/2002 | See Source »

Hanson concluded the discussion with a grave warning that “our institutions are being reformed everyday by a school of thought that is flawed and biased” and is “trashing our values...

Author: By Ari Z. Weisbard, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professors Debate Law, Economics | 3/20/2002 | See Source »

...names of all who died in a whole war; they are not even the names of all who died on a single battlefield. They commemorate the Britons, together with about 13,000 Canadians and Australians, who died at Ypres between 1914 and August 1917 and have no marked grave. (A separate memorial lists an additional 34,927--also without marked graves--who died at Ypres the following year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Europeans Can Be Useful | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...political turmoil, but they've become mere rituals, street theater playing to an indifferent public. Strikes are even less popular. President Kim Dae Jung came to power with union support, but labor leaders say his policies have betrayed them by forcing companies to restructure?which means killing cradle-to-grave jobs that were once a birthright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Changing Times | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

Karzai says she returned to Afghanistan for a single night last year to visit her father’s grave...

Author: By Eugenia B. Schraa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Flavor of Kabul in Cambridge | 3/6/2002 | See Source »

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