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...rocky start in 1993, after Murdoch offended authorities by declaring that satellite broadcasting threatens "totalitarian regimes everywhere." Since then, Murdoch has chosen not to irritate the Communist Party. In 1999 he ordered HarperCollins, News Corp.'s publishing arm, to drop a book by former Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten because it was critical of Beijing and, shortly after, dismissed the Dalai Lama as an old monk "shuffling around in Gucci shoes...
...swing into and out of the post every six months. A new post of European Foreign Minister would also be created, with a foot in both Commission and Council, and his or her own "European diplomatic service." That figure would combine the overlapping tasks of External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten and High Representative Javier Solana, who stay out of each other's way more by gentlemanly forbearance than by any clear definition of role. There is no question that the proposal, which will define the debate in the ongoing Convention on the Future of Europe over the next few months...
...Officers were dispatched to the Greenhouse Cafe in the Science Center after receiving a report of a person acting suspiciously. After identifying the person as someone who had previously been issued a trespass warning, the officers arrested 39-year-old Matthew W. Patten of Cambridge for trespassing and resisting arrest...
...considerations evidently count for less. The SAR administration knows it can push whatever it likes through the legislature thanks to post-colonial arrangements like the skewed electoral system to which Britain was a willing party in the end, despite the brief flowering of democracy under the last governor, Chris Patten. It has already shown its muscle by referring a decision by the top court to Beijing for "interpretation" when Hong Kong judges came down against it. Tung has installed a "ministerial system" of appointees in place of the civil service?they are said to be more accountable, but that seems...
...India seems to have calculated correctly. While expressing concern at the prospect of war, U.S. President George W. Bush has said he understands India's anger and frustration. European Union external affairs commissioner Chris Patten, who visited New Delhi and Islamabad last week, described India's patience as "stretched almost beyond breaking point" and the situation as on a "knife edge." Bush has stopped short of publicly admonishing Pakistan, Washington's key ally in the war on terror, but he's dispatching burly Undersecretary of State Richard Armitage to Islamabad next week, and his mission will be to deliver...