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...Zuma's victory may be less a result of his own appeal as a candidate than it is is testament to the ire that President Thabo Mbeki arouses among the ANC rank and file. Discipline, once a hallmark of the organization in its days as an underground guerrilla movement, was in scant evidence at a conference whose delegates appeared to be in a state of open revolt, booing and whistling at Mbeki during his opening speech, drowning out Mbeki allies by singing songs in support of Zuma, and delaying the leadership vote for two days in arguments over procedure. Mbeki...
...Several Chinese have recently been arrested for illegally bringing Bibles into the country, Fu points out. On Nov. 28, police raided the house of Beijing bookstore owner Shi Weihan, confiscating Bibles and other religious publications and placing him under detention. And Zhou Heng, a businessman and leader of an underground church in China's western Xinjiang region, was arrested in August for receiving three tons of Bibles from South Korea...
...courts' ruling denying it such status could also cause problems for the government, as many Germans believe the question of what qualifies as a religion is a matter of personal conscience rather than government authority. Skeptics warn that taking steps to ban Scientology could backfire, either by driving members underground or by making them appear as victims of state persecution. The 1997 government probe prompted several Hollywood stars, including Dustin Hoffman and Goldie Hawn, to sign an advertisement printed in German newspapers comparing the move to the repression of Jews under Nazism. Writing in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, religion...
...seems like it's become the culture of this election already." Montri reckons "maybe 50%" of candidates are buying votes in the region, often using hard-to-track methods. A candidate might pay for a funeral or another important local ceremony, clear a gambler's debt to an underground bookie, or buy credit for a teenager's cell phone. One PPP canvasser claimed his rivals were handing out Viagra to elderly voters...
Between working on a book about underground rap battles in Los Angeles, founding the Hiphop Archive, and playing out her own East Coast/West Coast rivalry, Stanford professor Marcyliena Morgan may just be too legit to quit. After ditching Harvard for California when then-President Lawrence H. Summers denied her tenure, Professor Morgan is due back in Cambridge this January as a tenured professor. FM chatted with Morgan by phone about Ebonics, sexual innuendo, and the future of Hiphop. 1.Fifteen Minutes: You’ve been called the “hip-hop” professor. Harvard isn?...