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...workers on the avenues around Tiananmen; in the crackdown that followed, only workers faced execution. Students received jail terms.) These days, those who challenge China's single, official labor union still face harsh penalties. Cao Maobing, for example, tried to set up a union at his state-run silk mill in eastern China's Jiangsu province two years ago. Local officials apparently decided that was a lunatic idea: Cao was involuntarily committed to an insane asylum for six months and abandoned organizing...
...Kweller is not your run-of-the-mill child prodigy. Born in 1981 in Greenville, Texas, he formed his first band at the age of 13, and was signed by a local record company the next year. In 1996, his band, Radish, was the subject of a bidding war that garnered national attention. The band broke up in 1999 and Kweller moved to Brooklyn to begin his solo career. In the years following he opened for Guster and Evan Dando tours, while also releasing the short EP Come Home. Finally, at the golden age of twenty, he has released...
...priest is his own personal business," said Mike Donahue, another friend of mine. Donahue, from an old, prominent Lowell family, still lives in the city and manages a local country club. "Why he lied about being gay--he's probably embarrassed about it. Lowell's a blue-collar mill city, and that stuff still doesn't go down well with some people here. As for whether the allegation's true, I'm with Spags. Geoghan had 60 kids going, 'This happened to me too.' Spags had one guy coming at him in 31 years...
...Harvard students feel up to the journey, they can catch up on Kerouac and the Beats at the release of a new documentary this weekend. A Kerouac Odyssey premieres today in Lowell, Mass., the mill-town in which Kerouac was born, and will play through March 12, the late author’s eightieth birthday...
Another bright spot is U.S. investment in steel plants abroad. In November 2000, USX-U.S. Steel purchased a financially troubled mill in the Slovak Republic and committed itself to a 10-year, $700 million capital-improvement plan. The Slovak company had squandered millions on dubious investments, including a travel agency, a soccer team and lavish holiday homes for executives. But the plant was relatively modern, with 100% continuous casting and three blast furnaces. U.S. Steel stamped out corrupt purchasing practices and shifted production to more profitable products. Result: while USX-U.S. Steel's American business recorded...