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From his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, Hu inherited the mandate for maintaining China's social compact after the Tiananmen Square massacre: the government gets to continue its autocratic ways, and in return the people get the longest sustained period of prosperity in more than 50 years. During last year's 16th...
SHEIKH AHMED YASSIN, leader of Hamas, in response to the Palestinian Prime Minister's pledge to end terrorism
CHARGED. LIU TAI-YING, 67, former Kuomintang treasurer; with perjury, graft, insider trading, and other offenses relating to several financial scandals; in Taipei. Liu, chairman of China Development Financial Holding Corp., was one of the most powerful figures in Taiwan's former ruling party during the 1990s. If convicted, he...
(2 of 2) Advocates will be fighting to nail down those commitments, because if they don't, the American pledge could wither. Currently the U.S. government has appropriated only $200 million for next year's contribution to the Global Fund. An Administration spokesman said he considered it "unlikely" that other...
At Christie's contemporary art sale in New York last month, the top lot was a huge mural painting by Mark Rothko that the auction house hailed as a "masterwork" and "of particular importance." When the bidding was over, No. 9 (White and Black on Wine) had sold for $16.4...