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...Human Rights in Geneva and were also making preparations for the 15th anniversary of the massacre. By Friday night all three had been released. China's official Xinhua news agency tersely stated that Ding had confessed that the women had "conspired with overseas forces to evade Chinese customs and import illegal goods to China ... and engaged in other activities in violation of China's State Security Law." According to the New York-based watchdog Human Rights in China, which has supported Ding's work, the illegal goods were T shirts from Hong Kong printed with a Tiananmen Mothers logo, which...
Surprisingly, the most satisfying of the real estate shows is an import. BBC America's Location, Location, Location (Saturdays, 10 p.m. E.T., debuts April 10) can be puzzling, with its unglossed Britishisms like "grade-2 listing" and "the Property Misdescriptions Act." But it's more honest than its American counterparts about what an ugly knife fight real estate can be. On the U.S. shows, real estate agents are kindly angels working selflessly to ensconce families in happy nests. Discovery's Double Agents (weekdays, 4 p.m. E.T.), which follows both buyers' and sellers' agents, presents them like NBA stars...
...omerta (silence) established by the original Mafia in Italy and honored by the Bonanno clan, which has roots in the Castellammare del Golfo, a town in western Sicily. The Bonannos are one of only two U.S. Mob families (the other is New Jersey's DeCavalcantes) that still import highly disciplined, Mediterranean-grown recruits...
...face of racial and social adversity, a message that resonates powerfully despite the track’s playful pace. “Hey, desperate youth! / Oh, blood thirsty babes! / Oh your guns are pointed / your guns are pointed the wrong way,” Adebimpe sings with disarming import...
...muscling for market share. GM, which has made Buicks in China since 1999, will soon launch top-of-the-line Cadillacs and plans to increase total production 50% in the next two years. In a first for the country, Beijing recently announced it will allow GM to import cars made overseas without going through a Chinese partner. Ford plans to increase production sevenfold, to 150,000 cars a year. Volkswagen, maker of the best-selling cars in China, plans to invest $6.5 billion with its joint-venture partner to double annual capacity at its Shanghai plant to a million cars...