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...religious groups "to guarantee social and political stability during the opening of the congress." The leaked materials revealed that the Party Organization Department praised security chief Luo Gan for presiding over 15,000 executions a year in the past four years as part of the effort to keep the lid on social unrest...
...Some analysts argue the clash in the West Sea on June 29 (in which North Korea patrol boats fired on South Korea naval vessels, killing five sailors) was the work of disgruntled military leaders trying to warn Kim Jong Il to keep a lid on change. The conventional wisdom has always been that North Korea is afraid to open the door a crack because the system could unravel so quickly. Some defectors and aid workers report that there is a sense of instability and uncertainty in the country right now. Rather than the start of reform, we may be seeing...
...offer a new model. Williams is no longer just a recording artist, but a franchise that EMI can spin off into everything from T shirts to action figures. By buying into Williams's wider activities, EMI hopes to swing even when CD sales aren't winning. BANKING "Opening The Lid" In Japan Heizo Takanaka must have the most stressful job in Japan - not easy in a country where train drivers have committed suicide for falling one minute behind schedule. Last week Prime Minister Junichiro Koizuimi fired Financial Services Agency chief Hakuo Yanagisawa, who opposed injecting capital into Japan's debt...
...increasingly capable of leveling the manic peaks and lifting the disabling lows. Behavioral and cognitive psychologists are developing new therapies and family-based programs that get the derailed brain back on track and keep it there. "We did a good job for a long time of putting a lid on [the disorder]," says Dr. Paul Keck, vice chairman of research at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. "Now the goal is to completely eradicate the symptoms...
...other time since the turbulent '70s. They flocked to stocks in the roaring 1990s, only to see $7.7 trillion of paper wealth incinerated. If the scandal and collapse at Enron had been isolated, the nation's deflated sense of opportunity might have been repaired by now. Instead, the lid has been lifted on bogus revenue-generating schemes throughout the energy and telecom industries; earnings deception on an even broader scale; and the frightening failure of accountants, stock analysts, board directors and regulators to protect the nation's retirement assets. "These people have all lost credibility and should be prosecuted," says...