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...Cheng Yizhong, confiscating books, magazines and computer documents and taking him into custody. Last week, two senior staff members of the paper were sentenced to hefty jail terms on charges of corruption. (The prosecution said the two had embezzled company money. Their defense attorney asserts that the payments were standard performance-based bonuses.) In an open letter to authorities last week, Chen Feng, the Daily reporter who broke the Sun Zhigang story, wrote that such a crackdown, if politically inspired, could mean a big step backward for China's media. "The will of authorities," he wrote, "will be the black...
...which requires her to get to work around 2 a.m., six days a week. "Everything [the CIA] has produced in the past 24 hours crosses my desk," she says. That's plenty. To determine what intelligence the President should hear at around 8 a.m., along with his standard daily reports, she will zoom through a stack of fresh intelligence as tall as three phone books...
...WorldCom's ex-CFO, Scott Sullivan, recently pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges, for instance. In other cases, auditors simply lacked spine: again and again, they failed to police the books aggressively for fear of losing the client, along with consulting gigs that brought in higher profits than standard audit work...
...campus has proven in the last year to be unique for a first-year publication: professors are using articles in their class syllabi and students are still referring to it months after it was published. The magazine already has groundings on the web, within the International Standard Serial Number administration and international recognition including a permanent subscription from a Belgian publisher. Cinematic has featured student-written articles next to submissions by people ranging from the producer of The Graduate to a Cannes-awarded Iranian director. All in all, 40 undergraduates and ourselves have been working extremely hard over the last...
Although the episode eventually degenerates into mayhem, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the show’s creators, have a good point. There is something decidedly unnatural about this new trend. While metrosexuality might bring about improvements in hygiene, it does so at a cost. It alters standard male behavior and propels male narcissism to new heights. That’s not to say that male narcissism is confined to metrosexuals; yet, metrosexuality does offer it an overt celebration by emphasizing the importance of physical appearance. As a result, guys stop gazing in admiration of female beauty and become fixated...