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...source, politburo members Luo Gan and Li Changchun have blamed the Hong Kong government for expecting fewer than 50,000 protesters on the streets on July 1, when about 500,000 actually turned out. How, they have asked, could a government be so out of touch with popular sentiment?and how could they have so badly botched the selling of Article 23? Perhaps in search of a sympathetic ear, Tung requested a meeting with Jiang Zemin, the man responsible for Tung's appointment...
...says Rhys, "it was difficult to discuss anything else." But he adds: "We don't see ourselves as a political band really, we just love music. We'd rather be singing about fast cars and loose women, but we can't help it." Bill Hicks loops aside, the political sentiment isn't always so obvious - it's given a furry guise. On Liberty Belle, the prewar sparring between Europe and the U.S. is presented as a tale of two cartoon super-heroes, Liberty Belle, the young, beautiful American, and Memory Lane, the European who has forgotten her history. "Liberty Belle...
...past few weeks will continue. "It's exactly the sort of thing that should happen around the trough of the market," says Michael Hartnett, head of European equity strategy at Merrill Lynch in London. "If companies see value, then we should see value. It has to be good for sentiment." Some entire sectors, such as biotech (see next story), seem reignited. No, we're not reliving the frothy days of 2000, when there were almost 20,000 mergers and acquisitions valued at $1.5 trillion in Europe alone. But the long, steep decline over the past three years may have bottomed...
...mobsters after he criticized Hong Kong's notorious triads on-air. Undeterred, he went back to his show. This time, though, Cheng isn't sure what he will do about the government warning. "We've been under a lot of pressure," he says, noting the rise in pro-Beijing sentiment among Hong Kong officials. "[But] we can't lose this freedom, this space...
...treated the GIs as friends, which I took as some sort of measure of how many of their parents must feel, too. It's possible they were nervous, or putting up a facade, at the sight of heavily armed foreign soldiers in their midst. But I found the same sentiment while interviewing Iraqis in different parts of the country. Whenever I spoke with a small group, one or two of them would trail me afterwards, and eventually say, "We thank America, thank...