Word: yang
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...Semel stepped down as CEO this week in favor of co-founder Jerry Yang, a Stanford wonder kid just like those Google guys who burst Yahoo's bubble. Yang is likely to take a back-to-basics approach to Yahoo, focusing on streamlining the company's many ventures to squeeze more revenue out of the company's new Panama advertising system, a revamped ad platform created to compete more aggressively against Google. "Yang's strengths are sentimental, technical, and basic," says Jordan Rohan, technology analyst with RBC Capital Markets...
...police say her son was busy cutting a taxi driver's throat on the night of Aug. 16, 1994, but Yang Shuxia says she knows better. "He was right here lying down next to me with the tube running into his arm," she says, pointing to the kang, a traditional brick sleeping platform found in most farmers' homes in this part of northeastern China. Yang and other family members insist that then 21-year-old Zhu Yanqiang couldn't even get to the toilet without help, much less sneak out to join in the brutal robbery-murder that took place...
...Still, several times a month, women like Yang and Wang Xiuqin, whose son Chen Guoqing is also imprisoned for the taxi murder, visit the main petition office in a run-down neighborhood near the Beijing South train station. Yang says she has no choice. "Of course we still come. Our children are innocent. How could we not come?" In December 2005, fed up with the lack of response, four relatives bypassed the petition office and marched straight to the red gates of Zhongnanhai, the Communist Party headquarters. Fu Yuru, mother of He Guoqiang, who is serving a suspended death sentence...
...Yang Wanying, whose son Yang Shiliang is also serving a suspended death sentence, the injustice is a crisis of faith. A lifelong Communist Party member who still dresses in a baggy Mao suit and cap, he passionately denies his son is guilty. On the night of the murder, his son was "sitting right there," Yang says, pointing to a window in the family home. "We played mah-jongg from seven o'clock until two in the morning." He pauses for a moment, overcome by emotion, then continues. "Every time I visit him in the jail he asks me the same...
...rather passive and superficial in the sense that terrorists who want to enter a country will do so at any cost, but people with good intentions, such as businessmen who want to invest there, will be thwarted and will turn to and benefit places that inhibit them less. Lu Yang, Singapore