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...descended on his village of Panlong in China's southern Guangdong province. "I know I don't matter." But what he has witnessed does. In mid-January, the man joined a remarkable protest against the local government's decision to seize communal farmland and lease it to a foreign investor. For several days, more than 1,000 villagers gathered near the disputed land, brandishing pitchforks and blocking a highway. But the brief exercise in free expression ended in tragedy. As dusk fell on Jan. 14, men armed with electric batons poured out of police vans and attacked the farmers. Villagers...
...21st century. And the polygamist compound where Bill grew up keeps pulling him back, Corleone fashion, from the 'burbs, driving the plot in dark, gripping directions. Stanton is perfectly cast as the pious, menacing Roman, who insists on the cut from the second store, although, legally, Roman is an investor in only the first. "There's man's law, and there's God's law," he warns, before the Hummers of his henchmen start staking out Bill's house...
...Corporation’s many discussions about the HIID matter, including those resulting in the decision to settle the case,” Houghton wrote, referring to the Harvard Institute for International Development.But Houghton’s letter did not directly address a charge leveled in Institutional Investor magazine last month by journalist David McClintick ’62, who wrote that Summers “made a point of taking aside Jeremy Knowles, then the dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, and asking him to protect Shleifer.”In a deposition at his Elmwood residence...
...with defrauding a U.S. government program designed to help Harvard economists privatize the Russian economy in the 1990s. The scandal has long been considered one of Harvard?s darker hours, but a new 28-page expos? by investigative reporter David McClintick, published in the January 2006 issue of Institutional Investor magazine, brought new heat on Summers, whom the article describes as going out of his way to protect his old friend and prot?g? Schleifer, who is still a senior faculty member at the university. In part because of the report, the faculty meeting in balustraded University Hall found Summers under...
...Parsons made certain concessions. Time Warner pledged to buy back $20 billion in stock, up from $12.5 billion. It promised to cut costs by an additional $500 million in 2007 and agreed to add two independent directors to the board--after consulting with Icahn about the candidates. Icahn's investor group still controls 3.3% of the stock, and he isn't likely to go away soon, so Parsons made other concessions, including a promise to review the findings of a report issued by Icahn's investment adviser, Lazard. One new point of agreement: Icahn now shares Parsons' view that Time...