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...displeasure - as if it wanted to sour all of Hollywood on Tom Cruise, and, by extension, other crazy or cranky stars, of which there are plenty. Since Redstone is not known for shooting from the lip, I'd guess that he, and perhaps other moguls, may be trying to tell its priciest talents that the era of $25 million paydays for a single picture - or the sort of star-studio deal that is lucrative only for the star - is over...
...days later, I saw Chen again in Beijing, where he was trying to meet with State Family Planning Commission officials to tell them the situation in Linyi. He gave us contact information for women who underwent the forced procedures, so my assistant and I decided to travel that very evening to Shandong to meet several victims, including one woman who had to abort her baby two days before her due date. (Night reporting is a popular tactic for foreign journalists in China. The dark affords us anonymity in places we are not supposed to visit under stringent Chinese Foreign Ministry...
...Chen's wife, Yuan Weijing, who has been under house arrest herself for months, was equally stunned by the harsh sentence. Each day, she says, her three-year-old son tells her he doesn't want to start supper until his father comes home. "Today," she told TIME by cell phone, "I had to tell my child that his father won't be joining him for dinner for a long time...
...city council what may be the most restrictive immigration-related local ordinance in the country. "It was draining the resources, the limited resources, to the point where I can no longer provide the public service that the legal, hardworking, tax-paying citizens should be getting... I certainly can't tell these people here that the federal government is working on it. They're expecting me to do something - I'm going to stand up and defend them...
...inhabitants of the Indonesian island of Flores used to tell stories of a separate race of little people called the ebu gogo, 3-ft.-tall, hairy human-like creatures that hid in the island's many limestone caves. Supposedly the ebu gogo - the name roughly means "grandmother who eats everything" - disappeared around the 16th century, when Dutch traders first came to this tropical island 350 miles east of Bali. It's a common myth with a convenient ending-as soon as witnesses who could have recorded the creature's existence come on the scene, the ebu gogo suddenly vanish...