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...later released, but sources say Jiang has since been subjected to daily indoctrination sessions to persuade him to recant. "What the authorities really want," says one source familiar with the situation, "is for him to express regret for writing or sending his letters, which would be a great tool with which to undermine the effect of his criticism...
Still, Slichter—true to his modus operandi of finding silver linings when they’re least expected—says there was a peculiar kind of solidarity to the House that he remembers as “the gardening tool shed in the back” of campus...
...After her marriage to Ferdinand Marcos, the voracious ambitions of this spoiled child and her dictator husband were to have an appalling impact on the Philippines. In 1972, the Marcoses did away with all democratic institutions. They turned the media into a propaganda tool, commandeered the courts, imprisoned any opponent bold enough to speak out against them and allegedly looted the impoverished nation...
...North. And the Bush Administration believes re-election would give it a freer hand to deal firmly with the North, possibly through tougher sanctions. Until then, though, Bush needs to appear open to negotiation so that allies and domestic voters alike will not carp that war is his primary tool of foreign policy. "It seems both sides don't want to compromise," says Lee Jung Hoon, a political scientist at Yonsei University in Seoul. "But neither wants to be seen as the culprit for the lack of progress...
...more time with his family?) Partly because of the stringent law, fewer foreign firms are listing shares in New York . New international listings have fallen by half since 2001 and may halve again this year. Indeed, the London Stock Exchange is using rising U.S. compliance costs as a marketing tool. John Thain, CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, allows that reforms have "come at a cost." Meanwhile, lawyers for HealthSouth founder...