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...supporting-cast members of CBS's No. 1--rated drama, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, must have been clinging to that million-dollar dream when they recently asked the network for bumps in their pay. Eads never arrived on the set the first day of filming, despite having signed a letter promising CBS that he would show up for work, whereas Fox failed to sign the letter altogether. The network, in a heck of a negotiating ploy, fired them. For advice on how to find their way back from hit-show has-beendom, we suggest they get CSI: Miami compatriot David...
...council initially backed the hotel and mosque proposal, but then the protests began. Almost 5,000 residents signed a petition arguing that "at a time of strengthening Arab terrorism in the whole world, it would be extremely irresponsible" to permit construction of the mosque. Local clergymen signed an open letter calling Islam "a strongly orthodox and militant religion whose principles ... are totally incompatible with [our] traditional values." The town council reversed course and voted to fight the mosque. "The only thing that it contradicts," Kubera says, "is public opinion, which holds that the Arabs should not increasingly make themselves...
Shortly after Jiang Yanyong sent an open letter to the media exposing the Chinese government's cover-up of the SARS outbreak in April 2003, he told TIME he doubted he would be punished. The semiretired military surgeon reasoned that as a veteran member of the Communist Party and a doctor exercising his "professional responsibility to protect the health of the people," he had nothing to fear. That assessment might have proved accurate had Jiang not courageously penned a second letter to the party leadership in February--this one denouncing the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. On June 1, on their...
...wife was released after 15 days, but Jiang could be in for a long stretch. The SARS disclosures prompted the ouster of two proteges of Jiang Zemin, 77, China's former President and current chairman of the Central Military Commission. And the Tiananmen letter threatens the chairman's efforts to secure his legacy as a great leader. Indeed, because of the doctor's high rank in the military, Jiang Zemin, in his capacity as military chief, is the only person with legal authority to order his detention. As of last week, Jiang Yanyong showed no inclination to oblige his captors...
...illegal immigrants," and might be a rebel movement set on establishing an independent state in the Central Highlands. Cambodia's King Sihanouk, in contrast, has strongly supported the asylum seekers. "The Montagnards are deprived of their ancestral lands, their forests, their houses, their cattle," he wrote in a letter of support last week...