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...Shaanxi province to Beijing to complain about having to pay $700 a year in local taxes when his annual income was only $800. Song took his petition to the special complaints office in Beijing reserved for Shaanxi residents, only to watch a yawning bureaucrat toss his papers in the trash. "My trip was a waste," he says. "I found out that there is no one in Beijing who can help me. We farmers are without hope...
...casualties of the fracas. Last week, South Korea President Kim Dae Jung hurriedly sacked his Minister of Defense and reshuffled his Cabinet after a public outcry over the navy's handling of the skirmish. Conservatives have used the battle to accuse Kim of being soft on Pyongyang and to trash the President's Sunshine Policy of North-South dEtente. "The Sunshine Policy used to be a major asset for Kim and his allies," says Moon Chong In, an expert on Korean politics at Yonsei University. "All of a sudden it has become a major liability...
...Daily Show to CNN International. Early word has Gallagher pegged for Kabul bureau chief Losers WINNIE MADIKIZELA-MANDELA Nelson's ex-wife in court for fraud. All this is just Winnie's way to make sure that Halle Berry plays her in the biopic, not Angela Bassett JERRY SPRINGERRA Trash host's show named worst program ever by TV Guide-validation that Springer has succeeded beyond his loftiest ambitions JOHN HENRY WILLIAMS Ted Williams' son criticized for having his dad cryogenically frozen. On the plus side, there was plenty of ice around for the wake
...more alert. Being more alert entails being more imaginative—after all, who saw crashing two planes into the Twin Towers as a legitimate terrorist option before last year? Eyes and ears become open to a host of horrific but suddenly and agonizingly plausible scenarios. In our eyes, trash receptacles become potential hiding places for sarin gas canisters. Mid-sized office buildings, no matter their unimportance, become potential targets for al Qaeda and require increased security. Tunnels become potential tombs. Nikes and Rockport wingtips become potential vessels for plastic explosive putty in the eyes of security guards who, given...
...their trousers. In response, others wave it with defensive pride, crack skulls in its name, and fly it from their garbage trucks, police cars and skyscraper scaffolds. In pride or put-on, Pop or protest, Old Glory's heraldry blazons battered campers and Indianapolis 500 racers, silver pins and trash bins, glittering cowboy vests and ample bikinied chests. The flag has become the emblem of America's disunity, and in a land where once only wars set it fluttering in vast numbers, the caricature of a new conflict is raging right at home. --TIME, July...