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...namo is more easily said than done, so the incoming Administration will be grateful for last week's offer of help from Europe. Portugal has written to the U.S. offering to resettle up to 60 Guantánamo inmates who are not considered security risks, and Portuguese Foreign Minister Luís Amado wrote to his European counterparts urging them to join his country's effort to help the U.S. close down Guantánamo. "The time has come for the European Union to step forward," Amado said in his letter. "We should send a clear signal of our willingness...
...parade emphasized celebrating diversity and equality but also aired grievances with the Chinese government. Gun Lu of Beijing held a sign protesting censorship of movies and television shows that deal openly with homosexuality. In January 2007, the Broadcasting Authority issued a warning to producers of a show called Gay Lovers for presenting a "pro-gay" view. In March, Hong Kong's legislative council panel unanimously passed a motion demanding that the Broadcasting Authority withdraw its earlier ruling. "Non-heterosexuals rarely appear in the media, and when they do, they are portrayed as effeminate, flamboyant, sissies, perverts or AIDS carriers," said...
...Eccles, Christine A. Eckhardt, Hannah K. Frank, Roger R. Fu, Jamie R. Fuld, James E. Goldschmidt, Ruwan Gunaratne, Kyle Q. Haddad-Fonda, Mitchell C. Hunter, Jean A. Junior, Jesse M. Kaplan, Russell P. Kelley, Christopher B. Lacaria, Nadira Lalji, Alice N. Lee, John D. Lesieutre, Tracy Li, Eric I. Lu, Maxwell S. Mishkin, Charles G. Nathanson, Garrett G.D. Nelson, Won H. Park, Julia L. Renaud, Charles H. Rhodes, Keller C. Rinaudo, Jacob N. Sanders, Adam R. Singerman, Brenton N. Speed, Dana A. Stern, Vivek Viswanathan, Brian M. Weller, Diana C. Wise, Xiaodi Wu, Wenxin Xu, David C. Yang, Norman...
...parents seemed like an immovable political force. But local authorities began blocking access to the sites of demolished schools where parents and journalists would gather. The government offered compensation to parents--hush money in exchange for a promise to keep quiet. Those that didn't acquiesce faced official intimidation. Lu says police frequently questioned him; the only shop with a fax in his village has been told not to let him send documents. Nevertheless, Lu continues. In late October, he received a statement from Beichuan officials denying any flaws in the building. Lu isn't satisfied. "As long...
...Shopkeeper A short walk from where Lu's daughter died, a temporary town has sprouted. Nearly 4,000 residents from the mountainside village of Tangjiashan, which was destroyed in a landslide, now live in makeshift houses, among which Luo Xiqun, 22, runs a tiny shop selling soft drinks, beer, hot sauce, instant noodles, cooking oil and toothpaste. She and her boyfriend Yang Yong had planned to marry this year. Then the earthquake struck, flattening their house and burying their wedding nest egg. At the time, money was the last thing on Luo's mind. "I wanted to live," she says...