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...Vietnam's laws: every citizen is guaranteed the right to worship, but "abuse of religious rights" is punishable by up to three years in prison. According to Zachary Abuza, a Vietnam expert at Simmonds College in the U.S., it is not individual faith that Hanoi opposes, but the prospect of a nationwide structure of authority that could topple the party's monopoly on power. Hanoi has thus appointed Vietnam's Catholic bishops since 1975, annoying the Vatican, which recently elevated an exiled Vietnamese bishop to cardinal. There are dissident priests in Vietnam, like Father Ly, but more troublesome are followers...
...offices in West London, a different kind of prospect confronts Stephanie Hunt, chief executive of NetBeat, a digital music distribution firm that has just received a $4.6 million funding commitment for second-round financing. Hunt turned her back on a career as an executive in a large entertainment corporation to pursue independence via the Internet. Now, with a trade sale her most likely exit, she may find her company bought by, and herself absorbed back into, the very world she left in October...
...such contentions valid? In this age of unprecedented economic success the idea that money talks is both an attractive prospect (for those looking to get it) and a foregone conclusion (for those who have it already). But is it really a system of values which we would like to apply indiscriminately in the political arena...
...carbon dioxide. Employees who go to bat for their bosses are a business asset. Yet Bush has seriously compromised the credibility of Whitman by opening her decisions to reversal by the president. When trying to seek compliance from industry on environmental regulations, Whitman will always be vulnerable, facing the prospect of an endless stream of executives talking to Bush rather than...
...sure. When he speaks about the prospect of reopening, he simply seems discouraged...