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...officials have been, by Chinese standards, remarkably candid. Lin Qiang, vice inspector of the Sichuan provincial education department, told Chinese news service Xinhua "If we educational officials hadn't left loopholes for corruption, the collapsed buildings could have been as solid [as those that remained standing]." He added that "Seeking truth is more important than losing face." Such sentiments, one Chinese lawyer told TIME, "all but invite the parents to keep pressing on this issue, to do whatever they can to seek justice. There is nothing in Chinese law that says they can't bring a lawsuit seeking compensation...
...School alone, and the anger of the parents of the victims is not diminishing, even though this past week the government reiterated its promises to investigate what happened and to include parents on a panel that will oversee the inquiry. Parents say they might hire lawyers to help them seek restitution - to get what a sign on a building next to the Juyuan school site calls "payment of the blood debt" from those who constructed the concrete building in 1988. "We're thinking very seriously of trying to get legal assistance," said one parent, who asked that his name...
...wrestling, the violence is real, and unpredictable. "The sport is brutal," says James "The Colossus" Thompson, a British fighter who will take on Kimbo Slice this Saturday. "You can't sugarcoat it. I will try to hurt Kimbo." Kimbo says his mind-set in the ring is to "seek, kill and destroy." Sanctioned MMA fights have resulted in one death in the U.S.; in 1998, another American died after being knocked out during an unregulated fight in the Ukraine...
...arguments in The Wisdom of Whores are new. But it's rare to see them expressed with such frank simplicity. Pisani is never one to mince words. "In the AIDS business we're all whores," she says. Given how aid groups seek out donors' money, "We're all selling ourselves to the highest bidder." As with the prostitutes, their actions follow a certain logic - and it could be deadly...
...into the global links that have been built between development activists and people of faith. "Faith," he says, "can be a civilizing force in globalization," which will doubtless be the theme of the course on the topic that he will be teaching at Yale this fall. His foundation will seek to partner with organizations to advance the U.N.'s eight Millennium Development Goals adopted in 2000. Blair's first target is malaria, which kills around 850,000 children each year; many of these deaths could be easily avoided by prophylactic bedding. "If you got churches and mosques and those...