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...shooting off half of his face and thus preventing law enforcement officers from making an immediate identification. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that a 24-year old student from China is person of interest in the case. He arrived in San Francisco in August on a visa issued in Shanghai. According to the Sun-Times, bomb threats that Virginia Tech experienced last month may have been attempts to test campus security. By mid-morning, however, reports began surfacing that a permanent resident of South Korean nationality was a suspect...
Zhou Fukuan, a cheerful 32-year-old who runs the DVD stand across the street from my old Shanghai apartment, just smiles when I tell him that the U.S. has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) over China's rampant infringement of intellectual-property rights. "I hadn't heard that," he says, "but this sort of thing happens a lot-the government says they'll crack down on [piracy]. It usually lasts a few days, and then...
...Microsoft and Merck want no part of the WTO complaint. But for the film and music business, the claim that there has been headway is simply a joke. "Competition has never been tougher," Li Haihua tells me as he peddles DVDs of new Hollywood films for 60? apiece on Shanghai's Huaihai Street, just blocks from a big antipiracy billboard. "There are more [sellers] than ever before, and the price has come down." Zhou says he earns less than 13? per disc. "It's definitely a volume business," he adds wearily...
...members of the opposition, who "will get bashed." A few weeks earlier, I caught a television interview on his 83rd birthday. "Some people say I am a dictator," he said at his 25-bedroom villa in the capital, Harare, complete with Italian-marble bathrooms and roof tiles from Shanghai. "My own people say I am handsome...
...press him on where his middleman gets his product - that is, who's actually making these pirated DVDs - Zhou smiles and plays dumb. He knows I'm a journalist and there are things he's not going to tell me. "I think they're made somewhere here in Shanghai," he says, "but I'm not really sure; I just deal with my supplier...