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...country, China's legal system is in transition, buffeted by social changes sweeping the nation as it races toward economic modernity. There are many other areas of grave concern for Beijing: a ravaged environment, an inadequate health-care system, pervasive corruption and a widening chasm between the urban rich and rural poor, to name a few. But none is so visible a symbol of the dilemmas Beijing faces in coping with rapid change while at the same time preserving the country's tenuous social order-and the Communist Party's grasp on political power-as the judicial and legal system...
...Congratulations on an extremely well-written and perceptive article on our national game and how it has attracted rich businessmen from around the world. There is little doubt that with the global TV income, association football is a very big business taking off in Asia. Having been involved in the professional game for more than 35 years, I have seen massive changes in all areas-stadiums, players, spectator comfort and involvement and, of course, TV coverage, which now dictates how the game is run. My team, a proud Premiership club with a fan base exceeding 50,000 every home game...
...even be sexually motivated. While child molesters are largely male and fit a certain stereotype-social misfit, living alone, unemployed, unable to form adult relationships-pedophiles could be anyone. They stalk playgrounds and schools, identify vulnerable children and spend much time "grooming" the victim. They may be the rich uncle who showers kids with gifts while hugging them too tight and for too long. Or the boyfriend who insinuates himself into a struggling single-mother family. The U.S. Department of Justice estimates that in over 90% of rapes of children under 12, the victim knew the offender...
...relatively close to the U.S., cutting shipping costs to the world's biggest oil consumer, and most of the reserves are out to sea - which means there's no need to construct pipelines through different nations to get the stuff to market. Equally important: unlike some other oil-rich countries, African nations welcome foreign companies to their oil fields, as there are no indigenous African oil majors. In his 2007 book Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil, John Ghazvinian, a visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, explains the euphoria like this: "African oil is cheaper, safer and more...
Angola is following a path that's painfully familiar among African oil states from Equatorial Guinea to Sudan. The pattern is this: well-connected businessmen and unscrupulous government officials grow impossibly rich, and the ruling élite uses its wealth and largesse to consolidate its own power. Much of this money is funneled into banks and assets abroad, while the majority of the population stagnates or even grows poorer...