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...Today, Hu is 29 and a reluctant leader of a campaign that undercuts Beijing's effort to show a kinder face to the world. In 1999 her husband received an 11-year sentence for organizing the Chinese Democracy Party, the biggest opposition party in 50 years of communist rule. Hu had remained an observer, serving snacks at party meetings. But suddenly faced with finding a lawyer, arranging prison visits and protecting her husband's rights, she began sharing tea and tales with the wives of other political prisoners in Hangzhou. One of them was an outspoken college student named Shan...
...consists entirely of "episodes" from The Contenders, complete with tacky titling and an unctuous, booming narrator. The minor miracle of Minahan's work is that it somehow encourages us to form a sympathetic bond with his main character, Dawn, whose ferocity is touched with a poignant longing for a kinder, gentler life by the splendid Brooke Smith. She is pregnant. She is back in the hometown she left in disgrace some years before. One of the people she is supposed to kill is the only boy she ever loved (Glenn Fitzgerald), who is both "ex-gay" and dying of testicular...
...KINDER, GENTLER P.E. Competition may inspire some grade-school athletes, but for less agile kids the pressure can make gym class torturous and turn them off sports for life. So more schools are adopting physical-education curriculums that emphasize cooperation, according to the National Association for Sport and Physical Education. For instance, the human-target sport of dodge ball has been replaced with games like bombardment, in which the goal is to move a large ball along by throwing smaller balls...
...steel skis, linked together in six trains. In a season they will cover 400 square miles. The men travel the North Slope in Sno-Cats with rubber tracks to minimize damage to the tundra. "We always used to be cautious, but now we are walking on eggshells," says Kurt Kinder, the Phillips Petroleum rep on the seismic team. But the tundra, like eggshells, is fragile, and once broken cannot be repaired...
...Back in 1998, right around tax time, grandstanding congressmen paraded wronged taxpayers in front of the cameras, passed a few bits of taxpayer's-rights legislation, and demanded a kinder, gentler IRS - a taxman with a smile. Two years later, it turns out he's practically toothless...