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Campaigning for the honor of hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics, Chinese officials offered vague assurances about learning to respect human rights. But the lessons have not sunk in. Hu Jia, an imprisoned writer, will soon stand trial on the un-Jeffersonian charge of "inciting subversion of state power." His apparent crime: writing a statement saying that the skyscrapers and venues on display in Beijing from Aug. 8 to 24 rest on a foundation of "tears, imprisonment, torture and blood." Hu's co-author, Teng Biao, was plucked from the street by four men in plainclothes and interrogated for 41 hours...
...that offers room after room of wood-paneled chambers with brass chandeliers and mounted moose heads. In other words, it's a party space. In one of the oaky rooms, the Los Angeles artist Eduardo Sarabia has opened a tequila bar. He made the blue-and-white-ceramic bar stand. He made the bottles. He even made the tequila. The press materials explain that it's not just a bar but an installation that "celebrates collaborative dialogue and community." In other words, a bar. You provide the hangover, your very own contribution to the "social performance" artwork...
...Harry introduces Kay to Richard, who is single and handsome. Richard decides that Kay is his next conquest. The plot twists, turns, and thickens with every scene. Sensitive Harry believes that if he were to leave Pat, she would suffer immensely. “I can’t stand to see anyone suffer,” he says. So he decides to kill her. Unfortunately, Cooper seems more like a former CIA agent embarking on a freelance operation than a troubled husband who is about to assassinate his beloved wife of two decades. The scenes in which Harry plans...
...Regrettably, that’s when we found this sensitive information,” he said. “Those initial scans did not find any information.” Harvard began notifying those who may be affected today, after an investigation determined that the University could no longer stand by its initial conclusion that no personal information had been accessed and disseminated. Officials said they had been unable to determine if any information had been compromised, and so had decided to notify everyone who was potentially affected and give access to identity theft services free of charge...
...trademark starched white shirt, the governor resigned, sunk by his stunning patronage of a high-end prostitution ring. "I cannot allow my private failings to disrupt the people's work," he said. "To every New Yorker, and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for, I sincerely apologize...I look back on my time as governor with a sense of what might have been." His wife Silda stood heartbreakingly next to him. And, as it turns out, Spitzer's lawyer was also nearby, perhaps because of what had been and what might still be to come...