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...sensitive time -- just as U.S. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown is preparing to escort a group of top U.S. ceos on a whirlwind tour of China. Hours before his arrival on Saturday, police detained prominent dissident Wang Dan, a leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and an outspoken critic of Beijing's policies...
...black head scarf and tinted glasses disguised her features. She appeared grim and jittery through a 45-minute hearing that ended with her release on $250 bail. Then she fled home to relatives she had not seen since June 4. By the consensus of literary critics, Nasrin, an outspoken feminist and atheist, is no Salman Rushdie. Her rather slapdash stories have gained notice mainly as screeds against the ill treatment of women. What she shares with the author of The Satanic Verses, a novel that earned an Iranian death warrant against Rushdie 5 1/2 years ago, is the misfortune...
Haiti's military leadership is growing less tolerant of dissent as the threat of U.S. invasion looms. Last night, hours after the regime had declared a state of siege, a truckful of soldiers and armed civilians opened fire on a former member of the Haitain Senate, Reynald Georges, an outspoken political opponent who appeared on international television and in foreign newspapers in recent days criticizing the junta. Georges was in hiding this evening after a private clinic removed three bullets from his back and arm. Haiti's de facto authorities, meanwhile, ordered local news outlets to stop issuing "foreign propaganda...
Cole was also an outspoken critic of what heperceived as rampant grade inflation at theUniversity...
Cambridge City Councillor William H. Walsh, an outspoken...