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...huge meeting--an international convention with delegates from everywhere. And that's when they decided that humans were the up-and-coming species and dogs were going to throw their lot in with them. The decision was obviously not unanimous. The wolves and dingoes walked out in protest...
...have made the transition from underground obscurity to mainstream stardom. From their first single?1987's Songs of Yesterday?they've achieved this by espousing an openhearted, socially aware brand of rock that compensates for its occasional ham-fistedness with endearing sincerity. Through 27 albums, their songs of protest and peace have touched on everything from human rights to China's social contradictions to the aspirations of ordinary Hong Kongers. One of their most famous songs, 1990's Days of Glory, is about Nelson Mandela: "Today there's only a battered body left to welcome the days of glory/ Holding...
...which the military brutally crushed. "The generals saw her crowds growing larger," says a diplomat, "and decided they had to stop it." Now, Burma has been locked down. The military has shut all NLD offices nationwide, put party leaders under house arrest and closed universities?traditional flash points of protest. Witnesses to the attack are in hiding and being hunted by security forces. And the generals? Says Aung Zaw, a Burmese opposition figure in exile in Thailand: "They will hang on to the last bullet...
...Still, there are signs of protest, if not change. Huang Shurong, a peasant from the northern province of Heilongjiang, was committed by psychiatrists to a mental institution five times from 1998 to 2002 for complaining that local officials had taken her best farmland. A website run by the Procuratorial Daily, the newspaper of China's prosecutor's office, last year published a review of her case in which doctors were warned not to comply with police seeking expedient ways of incarcerating undesirables. "Medical staff are an essential link in the chain of evil that produces these abuses, and this should...
...that direction on Wednesday, giving in to the disgrace of the moment, looking distraught and wounded and disheveled for the first time ever on camera. Like that other distressed damsel Hillary, who had Ken Starr, Martha has a villain: James Comey, the U.S. Attorney for New York. He may protest too much when insisting he's indicting Stewart not for "who she is, but because of what she did." Other federal prosecutors readily admit that going after a celebrity is a cost-effective way to deter all the potential lawbreakers out there. But note there is such a thing...