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...SENTENCED. CAI XIAOHONG, former secretary-general of Beijing's liaison office in Hong Kong; to 15 years in prison for passing state secrets to British intelligence; in Guangzhou, China. Cai, who was arrested last year, is the highest-ranking Chinese official to be convicted of spying for a Western government. The South China Morning Post reported that he was paid more than $700,000 by the British Secret Service for sharing classified information, including the itinerary for former President Jiang Zemin's 2001 visit to Hong Kong...
...second, but could not. Cooper's sole remaining inverter was needed to power cabin-cooling gear on re-entry. Now Cooper would have no automatic aids at all in bringing his capsule down ... It was up to Cooper?with some dramatic help from the calm, crisp voice of [ground liaison] John Glenn ... Cooper and Glenn ran swiftly, surely down a check list of the operations Cooper must perform for re-entry. Cooper skillfully steadied his craft by a manual control stick ... Like a rifleman with a cross-hair sight, he lined up a horizontal mark on his window with...
Regardless of the results of the investigation, we believe there are steps Columbia should take to ensure a safer, more welcoming learning environment. Columbia ought to establish a formal complaint mechanism—an office or liaison separate from the academic departments that would hear students’ formal complaints concerning intimidation or discrimination. Such mechanisms exist, for example, to safeguard students who experience racially- or sexually-motivated harassment. It should exist to guard against improprieties motivated by bias against religious groups as well...
Corker, who proposed the creation of his position last spring before he graduated, said he has been spending a lot of time acting as a liaison between the Office of Student Activities and students groups like the Undergraduate Council, the Campus Life Committee (CLC), the First-Year Social Committee, H-Club and the Prefect Program...
...until the 2004 race began, lived outside Denver with her longtime partner Heather Poe. But her being gay has long been public knowledge. It is part of almost every media profile of the Cheney family, and has sometimes defined her professional life: she was the Coors Brewing Co.'s liaison to the gay community from...