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...President Jiang Zemin reiterated that squelching social unrest was his top priority. Yet since Jiang's address to senior government officials in late November, the rate of bombings has actually increased, leaving nine dead and scores injured. "This is a new, dangerous phase in the nation's history," says Joseph Cheng, a politics professor at the City University in Hong Kong. "China can no longer contain its growing social inequalities...
...been a precipitous fall for Joseph ("Erap") Estrada, the playboy who rose to fame as a movie star and then garnered infamy as a President. Of his legendary appetites, for women, drink, gambling, food, he can now only assuage the latter. And while he sits before a table groaning with his favorite dishes?plates of lechon and cheese, vats of bird-fetus soup and sweet rice-paper rolls, all hustled across town from the fully staffed kitchen of his family home?he tries to conjure his old enthusiasm, to reawaken the fire that he rode to his populist successes...
...politics are a factor, then the maids are doomed. They have few backers in a society where there is little respect for menial labor. "Folding my shirts is not strenuous work," says Joseph Law, spokesperson and founder of the Hong Kong Employers of Overseas Domestic Helpers Association. "A lot of hours of their day are spent doing things like ironing and shopping. That isn't exactly taxing." A retired civil servant, Law is lobbying for the maids to receive a 15% pay cut on the grounds that their home currencies are devalued and Hong Kong's economy is weak...
...Believe It or Not Author and historian Joseph Ellis' stellar career - a National Book Award in 1997, a Pulitzer in 2001 - abruptly stalled this summer when it was revealed he was not only writing history, but rewriting it as well. It turned out Ellis had invented his tour of duty in Vietnam, with which he liked to regale students, earning their scorn and a 12-month suspension from Mount Holyoke College, where he had taught for 29 years...
...other hand, Brinkema sentenced a Loudoun County doctor to 30 months in prison, 2 1/2 times what was called for in the guidelines, for performing examinations under the influence of painkillers he stole from his patients. She said the defendant, Joseph Shaw Jones, created a "significant risk of injury and harm to the public health...