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...citizens say graft and corruption are their top concerns, according to a study by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. But despite a highly publicized national crackdown?Chinese newspapers are constantly filled with stories of big-name arrests and executions?Beijing appears unable to stem a flood tide. Individually, ordinary Chinese can do little to protect themselves. In the city of Yiyang in central Hunan province, a middle-school teacher was killed recently by a hit man, according to the police, after he told local journalists that 600 teachers had not been paid in months because the local...
...Benedict's summation that turned the tide. A tweedy, silver-haired George Plimpton type who shuns the limelight, Benedict was soft-spoken for most of the trial. (At one point a member of the jury even had to ask him to speak up.) But his closing argument was a tour de force. Orchestrating a barrage of tapes, photographs and flashing transcripts, Benedict wove dozens of disparate facts into a simple scenario as chilling as any thriller: Skakel, jealous because Moxley flirted with Tommy, beat her to death in a drunken rage, masturbated over her body, then crept back...
...psychology won't get her very far in this job market. While other students are playing Frisbee or napping on the lawn, Kusian, 21, has been handing out resumes all over town and getting rejected for even simple bartending or hostess positions, which she needs to tide her over while she prepares to apply to grad schools. "If I thought I could get a good job now with a decent salary," she says, "I wouldn't be going through all this...
...moment, however, Robert Mueller stands more or less alone, in front of a rising tide of criticism. He must know he could easily be the sacrificial lamb of these snarling investigations, out of a job after less than a year. But he could also be remembered as the one guy who kept his head, even as everyone around him proceeded to lose theirs...
...separation of powers at odds with the demand that Arafat crack down on Israel's most wanted highlights the political crisis. Israel and the U.S. want a Palestinian leadership that cracks down on militancy, but doing that will require an authoritarian strongman ready to enforce his will against the tide of Palestinian public opinion. If, as has been widely reported recently, Washington and the Israelis are eyeing Gaza security chief Mohammed Dahlan as a desirable successor to Arafat, it's not because they believe he's a small 'D' democrat...