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...SENTENCED. PERRY WACKER, 32, to 14 years in prison for the manslaughter of 58 Chinese illegal immigrants who suffocated in the back of his truck while being smuggled into Britain from Belgium; in Maidstone, England. Of the original 60, two surviving immigrants told how Wacker had closed the air vent on one of the hottest days of the year. CONVICTION OVERTURNED. For BENAZIR BHUTTO, 49, the two-time Prime Minister of Pakistan; in Islamabad. The Supreme Court ruled that a 1999 trial convicting Bhutto of corruption was fixed, paving the way for the self-exiled Bhutto to return home. INDICTED...
...incredibly unjust. After all, it is a strange double standard when Eminem can rap about decapitating his wife or stabbing someone in the head if they are a "fag or a lez," no? MTV's cowardly ban on the video proves Madonna's point: The batterer gets to vent, but a girl who fights back will not only be categorically silenced, but also completely ignored...
...China spiraled out of control and ended up bringing down the government. When a group of Qinghua University students tried to organize a demonstration in Beijing last week, the government squelched it. For the time being, China's future leaders will have to rely on video games to vent their patriotic fervor...
...Schoolsnet, parents can access statistics on British schools, such as average test scores, while students can find anything from review notes on Ted Hughes' poetry to results of school rugby matches. And teachers can vent; one message board is titled, "Let's be honest - kids are awful...
...such are the vagaries of globalization. Fast-food franchises are the Marines of globalization, always establishing the first beachhead in previously closed economies. And that means they're also accustomed to taking a lot of fire. A crowd of Cairo students looking to vent its rage against U.S. support for Israel won't get within a mile of Washington's heavily fortified embassy, but it won't have much trouble finding an American fast-food outlet - as KFC discovered to its detriment last month. And with some 39 McDonald's outlets now operating in Egypt, it's hardly surprising that...