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...Huang has a history of fighting graft. After serving in the People's Liberation Army, he rose to become head of the finance commission in Fuzhou. While helping lead an investigation into illegal pig slaughterhouses, he received death threats and his own deputy was beaten to death in an orange grove. The city issued him a bulletproof vest that he wore proudly around his office. The investigation led to jail terms for five prominent Party officials. On the day Huang reported for duty at Lianjiang in January 2002, a hundred residents stopped him to say the government had torn down...
...region have minimal stocks of antiviral drugs and no pandemic action plan. H5N1 vaccine, still in development, would not arrive in time to make a difference. If a pandemic occurred tomorrow, says Stohr, Asia would be "playing it by ear," politically improvising even as the death toll rose. "One of the most difficult things to explain to the public after a pandemic would be why we weren't prepared, because there have been enough warnings," he adds...
...results. He ordered high-profile raids on organized crime gangs, chased prostitutes out of residential areas, and built detention centers for illegal immigrants, accompanying each initiative with a media blitz that let people know what was going on - and who was making it happen. Although the number of assaults rose, the overall crime rate dropped for the first time in five years, and the French started feeling safe again. "People were very worried about crime," Sarkozy recalls. "The élite, the pundits, said, 'There is no threat. People just think there is.' I helped reduce that perception gap, and acted...
...audience member later rose to ask Scalia “whether you have any gay friends, and—if not—whether you’d like to be my friend...
Dunster House resident Zachary D. Liscow ’05 rose during the question-and-answer session to suggest that Scalia’s own vote in the controversial 2000 presidential election case could be viewed as an example of the “judicial activism” Scalia deplores...