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...Jiang penned a letter to China's leaders, urging them to reconsider their unrepentant stance on the massacre and describing his own haunting memories of the mangled bodies brought to his hospital that night. The disappearance last Wednesday of Jiang and his wife, Hua Zhongwei, appears to be the strongest reaction yet to his criticisms of the government, and underscores Beijing's continued determination to discourage discussions of Tiananmen...
...depth of this year’s field was undoubtedly the strongest it has ever been...
There's another reason. As the new Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban proves, these can be smart, enjoyable films if the stars are properly aligned. It helps that Azkaban has one of the strongest plots in the canon thus far. Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), now 13 and in his third year at Hogwarts' School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, is challenged by the escape of the notorious Sirius Black (Gary Oldman) from Azkaban, the Alcatraz of the wizardly world. With a new danger, a new protector: Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor Lupin (David Thewlis), a wise, kindly gent with...
RIESCHEL: On the other hand, you can't take for granted that the next round of technological leadership is going to come from the United States. Intel is one of our strongest companies, but other than that, semiconductor manufacturing pretty much now resides outside the United States. In terms of manufacturing complex products, the new Chinese companies have a leadership stake...
...partnerships through in 2001, but a bill that would have treated same-sex partners the same as married couples on taxes, pensions and adoption stalled in the conservative-dominated Bundesrat. Even domestic partnerships remain off the agenda in Italy, where the Catholic Church's influence remains strongest. Perhaps to defuse the issue, some politicians even question whether marriage is such a great idea in the first place. "Marriage has been a tragedy for heterosexuals," argues Vittorio Sgarbi, a gay marriage supporter and former Italian Culture Ministry official. Ségolène Royal, a French Socialist seen by many...