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...cronies that it appears the Party's ballyhooed transition to a younger generation of leaders has effectively been thwarted. Jiang even engineered an expansion of the Standing Committee from seven to nine members, presumably so he could get his right-hand man, Zeng Qinghong, and unpopular but loyal apparatchiks Jia Qinglin and Huang Ju into his postretirement support network...
...with walkie-talkies watching him. But police at the Beijing Public Security Bureau say they don't know where he is. (The bureau is required by law to notify detainees' families within 24 hours.) 'There were definitely people who wanted him to shut up,' says fellow activist Hu Jia. 'But for now, we're just not clear why he has disappeared.' All anyone can do is wait for his call...
...United States, we wouldn’t put up with a company that exploited its workforce without providing health care coverage. Why do we accept such scenarios abroad?” said Jia Han ’05, a member of the Harvard AIDS Coalition (HAC) who spoke at the rally...
...making the film was hell. Jiang's rigid perfectionism prolonged the shooting by months. Some days he wouldn't film because he didn't know what he wanted. Jiang's assistant director for Heat, Fu Jia, now an executive at Columbia Pictures' office in Beijing, was so scarred by the experience she hasn't worked on the set of a movie since. "It was a nightmare," she shudders. As the shooting of the summer idyll ran into winter, Jiang had freezing actors in summer clothes eating ice cream before takes so that their frosted breath wouldn't appear on film...
...Warsaw Ghetto. Second place, the Grand Prix, went to Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without a Past?one of the deadpan-comic Finn's finest films, but more sweet than startling. And Im's thanks-for-coming prize was the only laurel Asia received. The one competing Chinese film, Jia Zhangke's Unknown Pleasures, got nothing. As for Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and Thailand, they had no films invited to the main festival. India too: Devdas was shown out of competition...