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Mosul was a surprise detour on Rice's long-scheduled swing through the Middle East, and it involved trips on a C-17 cargo plane and a Blackhawk helicopter. She went to take a firsthand look at the work of the first of 16 U.S. Provincial Reconstruction Teams to be...
4 Bakersfield P.D. (FOX) The little series that couldn't. This loopy comedy about a provincial police department provided more laughs than any other new show this season, yet its ratings have not budged beyond the Nielsen basement. After sticking with the show longer than expected, Fox is finally pulling...
Gui, 68, an infectious-disease specialist at Wuhan University, immediately informed provincial health authorities that AIDS had somehow broken out of the usual high-risk groups--homosexual men, intravenous-drug users and commercial-sex workers--and infiltrated the general population. But the mystery remained: How had this "foreigner's disease...
Lu says he has now been branded a "black hand" by provincial party officials?the epithet used for labor leaders of the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square. His fall from favor underscores the frictions that accompany China's uneven efforts to modernize. While the country has progressed economically, its authoritarian...
DaimlerChrysler has also paid the price for its mismanaged global ambition. Two successive chief executives, Edzard Reuter in the 1980s and Jürgen Schrempp in the '90s, aggressively pursued visions of international growth and diversification and financed them by tapping into the cash hoard Mercedes had built up over decades...