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...Bill and I debated whether we should attend a ceremony in Tiananmen Square, where Chinese authorities had used tanks to forcibly suppress pro-democracy demonstrations in June of 1989." HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, Democratic Senator from New York and former First Lady, in a passage from her best-selling memoir, Living History, which was expunged, along with several others, from the Chinese edition...
...Bill and I debated whether we should attend a ceremony in Tiananmen Square, where Chinese authorities had used tanks to forcibly suppress pro-democracy demonstrations in 1989." HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, New York Senator and former First Lady, in a passage from her memoir Living History that was expunged?along with several others?from the Chinese edition...
...Peter Ackerman, an expert who studies the non-violent overthrow of repressive governments, believes that high-tech concepts like smart mobs offer potentially powerful frameworks for political resistance, because the process of organizing takes place under the radar of their governmental opponents and is therefore harder to suppress...
Though Seasonale is new, the idea behind it is not. Doctors have sometimes prescribed continuous birth control to suppress menstruation, whether for lifestyle reasons (before a beach vacation, say) or to avoid migraine headaches. One caveat: test subjects using Seasonale experienced nearly two weeks of bleeding during their first cycle. The spotting, however, diminished over time...
PacSun isn't finished with expansion. Weaver says the company is looking at possible acquisitions, although he plans to stay squarely in the teen market. For as fickle as teenagers can be, they can also be charmingly oblivious to events that suppress the purchasing appetites of other consumers. Teens "are CNN-proof," he says. "Sept. 11 and a day or two after were clearly brutal, but within four or five days, business came back." For teens, the sun rarely sets. --With reporting by Paige Bowers/Atlanta, Esther Chapman/Omaha, Harlene Ellin/Chicago and Adam Pitluk/Dallas