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...Jintao, the President and (a more important position) General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, wants to keep it that way. He came to power in November 2002 in the first political succession in modern China that took place without purges, late-night arrests or blood in the streets. That alone is a measure of China's new stability. The government's main focus: balancing growth between the go-go coastal areas and a sometimes shockingly poor interior, easing the movement of millions from farms to cities and ensuring that local officials do not succumb to corruption...
...overcome is the unequal burden of caregiving. With few exceptions, one sibling in a family gets to be--or gets stuck with being--the primary caregiver. Whether that means stopping by Dad's to run errands, nursing an Alzheimer's patient in the spare bedroom or responding to late-night calls from the nursing home, one adult child usually does the lion's share...
...there is never more than four years of institutional memory to guide us. Some mistakes are those of exhaustion or the exigencies of making fast-paced decisions—after hours cooped up in a windowless newsroom, breathing only the aroma of stale pizza and rotting Kong food, that late-night call can seem a little silly, or worse, the next day. And some, of course, are of hubris. Occasionally we prioritize getting every last detail into a story, or writing every story involving an undergraduate’s private life or a contretemps in a student group, citing...
...started out as a CEO's worst nightmare. Three months ago, a Nevada woman named Anna Ayala claimed to have found a severed finger in a bowl of chili she ordered at a Wendy's restaurant in San Jose, Calif. The fast-food chain became the butt of every late-night comedian's jokes, and its CEO, Jack Schuessler, faced an embarrassing lawsuit and more than $15 million in lost business, thanks to the unwelcome publicity. Then things took an even more bizarre twist. Authorities in San Jose turned their attention to Ayala, alleging that she fabricated the story...
...report alleging that an unauthorized group was using classrooms led police to Mallinckrodt Laboratory on 12 Oxford St. The responding officers found the late-night trespassers and sent them away...