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...bags filled with documents at any interested passersby, is an embarrassment for the central government. So, each year, as the NPC plans its annual meeting in the capital to discuss major legislative and social issues, the police raze the petitioners' shantytown?only to see it sprout anew like some stubborn weed. This year, the demolition began in late January in preparation for the March 5 commencement of the NPC. Li barely escaped the security officials who hustled petitioners into vans to send them back to their hometowns. He lost his blanket and clothes in the raid, forcing him to keep...
...sold them without the cheesy remix, and Jones effectively began to seize control of her career. "Norah makes every decision now," says Blue Note president Bruce Lundvall. "From what she's wearing to the television shows she'll appear on to the songs she'll sing. She's very stubborn--in a good way. She knows what she wants...
...result of a clash of cultures and loss of focus, and the new J.P. Morgan Chase will still lack the global reach and insurance breadth of Citigroup (the former might also want to acquire a retail brokerage). But as much as anything else, investors are banking on Dimon's stubborn pride to make sure this one will be different. Weill and Dimon may have patched things up at a personal level--indeed, Weill was one of the first outsiders to call his former protege to congratulate him on last week's big news. But Dimon, who took boxing lessons during...
...leftover pet with grace and affection or with grudging acquiescence, few of them, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (A.S.P.C.A.), try to unload the critters. Some do make an effort to hand them over to their adult kids, only to meet a stubborn resistance that has little to do with the practicalities of caring...
...relax” as it methodically sips coffee and thumbs through the Derrida Reader. Britain is letting out a “yeesh” and slowly stalking away from our long embrace. For two years after Sept. 11, the world became used to the stubborn, arrogant, go-it-alone, kill-the-bastards approach of the United States with regard to its terrorist enemies. Now, however, America has become a paranoid victim again after its lengthy, and ultimately dissatisfying, spree of righteous vengeance...