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...comment, China's leaders insisted that he remove the BBC from Star TV's menu of channels after it aired a program critical of Chairman Mao Zedong. Murdoch complied, and has gone further since. On his orders, News Corp.'s publishing arm, HarperCollins, dropped a book written by Chris Patten, Hong Kong's last British Governor, in which Patten was critical of Beijing. In 1999 Murdoch even derided the Dalai Lama, Beijing's longtime foe, as "a very political old monk shuffling around in Gucci shoes." News Corp. hired an American adviser last year to help China's state...
...prosecutor in the case, Essex Assistant District Attorney Stephen Patten, was unhappy with the deal Weitzman cut, according to The Boston Globe. The Globe reported Tuesday that Patten believed Weitzman, as a professor at “one of the finest institutions in our nation,” should have admitted to taking the manure without permission...
...exec by day, says the Rollergirls are creating "a coalition of the willing" that will hash out official flat-track rules in Chicago this summer. And the league's inaugural meeting comes none too soon. "The injury rate in flat track is extremely high," warns Tim Patten, owner of the old-school Bay City Bombers. "Their play gets dirty real quick." --By Adam Pitluk and Julie Rawe
...fights terrorism. Human rights groups have predicted that the Administration might come to rue the extremes to which it pushed the envelope on interrogation. "After 9/11 the government said we couldn't win the war on terror unless we had these kinds of policies," says Wendy Patten, U.S. advocacy director of Human Rights Watch. "Now we may be losing the war on terror because of these policies." Reversing field completely carries risks: U.S. intelligence and military officials believe that some of the repudiated tactics have elicited vital intelligence from detainees, from Iraq to Afghanistan to Guantanamo Bay. Yet the scandal...
...Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe should work out new power-sharing arrangements by Dec. 15, Kumaratunga's spokesman announced, and so end a bitter tussle between the two rivals that threatens to derail efforts to end the 20-year-long civil war. E.U. External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten travels to Colombo this week to help resolve the three-week-old crisis, sparked by Kumaratunga's accusation that Wickremesinghe's government has been too lenient in peace negotiations with Tamil Tiger rebels. MEANWHILE IN THE U.K. ... Ay Caramba, it's Tony! As U.S. President George W. Bush returned from...