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...Guangdong province in November, party leaders quashed media reports about its existence, fearing the public would stay home during the Chinese New Year holiday rather than spend money that could spur the economy. By early March, when the government convened the National People's Congress to inaugurate a new slate of senior leaders, doctors and members of China's state-controlled media say they knew about the growing crisis but were prevented from reporting it. "We had stories ready to run," says a journalist in Guangdong. "But before the Congress, we couldn't publish them, and after the Congress...
...asphalt walks all over the Yard are awful. Dartboard’s own poor Los Angeles inner-city public high school did a better job of filling potholes. This is especially bad because in this case, Yale shows us up so thoroughly. Their Old Campus is criss-crossed by slate walks. True, cars often need access to the Yard, and slate driveways may not be able to handle all that weight. But cars don’t have to drive all over the Yard; there are plenty of ugly asphalt paths that could simply be torn...
...less culture shocked than many of my classmates,” she says. “I didn’t grow up with this big mantle over my head about Harvard. I didn’t have any great expectations. I came here with a fairly blank slate...
...damage to the dissidents is enormous. I don't know how they will recover now." AN UNNAMED EUROPEAN AMBASSADOR TO CUBA, on the prison sentences handed out to a slate of anti-Castro dissidents...
...Peace MIDDLE EAST The long-awaited road map for Israeli-Palestinian peace may be published this week, if Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas and his cabinet are confirmed as expected. But the diplomatically arduous process of getting Yasser Arafat to accept Abbas, better known as Abu Mazen, and his slate of ministers shows that, for the international plan to have any hope of success, another road map will be needed - for peace within the Palestinian camp. "The heavy pressure from European and Arab leaders on Arafat produced results," says Palestinian Legislative Council member Muawiya al-Masri. But it has also...