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...gets much worse. When township officials apprehended 30 year old Zhou Jiangxiong in May 1998, they hung him upside down, repeatedly whipped and beat him with wooden clubs, burned him with cigarette butts, branded him with soldering irons and ripped his genitals off. What did this man do to deserve such a heinous punishment? According to Amnesty International, he was tortured to death because the officials were trying to make him reveal the whereabouts of his wife, whom they “suspected of being pregnant without permission...
...also against the law for Chinese to own property in California, and unlawful at the federal level for Chinese to become naturalized citizens. These laws had grown out of the so-called "Driving Out," when Chinese had literally been driven from Western towns?when they weren't hung, shot, burned or stabbed by members of the white community, who had no fear of retribution because Chinese could not testify in court against Caucasians. What started as informal harassment was formalized with the Exclusion Act of 1882, which barred the immigration of Chinese laborers and led to even more institutionalized racism...
Meanwhile, first-year residents of Mass. Hall-part of a small counter-protest movement in the Yard-hung signs from their dorm windows urging PSLM to end the protest...
...It’s hurting their cause,” P. Joseph Konzelmann ’04 agreed yesterday. Konzelmann hung a sign reading “Jail PSLM” from his third floor Mass. Hall window. “They’re disrupting the peace. It’s like going to a concert and trying to do work...
Peterson, 40, is one of 1,700 full-time Dell workers who lost their jobs since February, in an economy that has been shedding 100,000 workers a month since the beginning of the year. Last week Winstar Communications, once a wireless wonder, hung up on 2,000 employees--44% of its staff. TiVo, Sycamore Networks and Extreme Networks added more bodies to the tech sector's growing pile. AOL Time Warner, parent of TIME, has announced 2,400 job cuts in response to the slowing economy and pressure from Wall Street. By week's end unemployment...