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...long as ten years in prison for crimes "involving bribery, fraud, illegal speculation and tax evasion." To make sure the Chinese public got the message, the sentencing hearing was broadcast on national television and the culprits were shown with their heads bowed and shaved. Most prominent among them was Yin Zhinong, a retired deputy manager of a steel mill and longtime Communist Party member. Yin got a six-year prison term for speculation and was stripped of his party membership. Said a Western diplomat: "Clearly a message was being sent." The general thrust: that government officials and ordinary Chinese citizens...
...think that he was the yin and yang of [Harvard and Cambridge],” says Cambridge’s current mayor, Michael A. Sullivan...
...Chamber of Commerce to the liberal AFL-CIO had been meeting secretly for seven months because they were worried about the sketchy, inefficient quality of American health care and wanted to figure out a proposal for universal coverage. Two weeks earlier, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Newt Gingrich, the yin and yang of politics in the 1990s, announced that they had found common ground on the issue as well. The renewed search for a comprehensive health-care solution reflects a deeper tide of concern in corporate America over the debilitating costs of providing health insurance and pensions for employees. These...
Playing Quagmire and Alex, respectively, the secretaries of Veronica’s detective agency, Joshua Sharp ’08 and Yin Li ’08 are stuck with the unenviable task of providing the comic relief in a play that is already nothing but. Playing the self-proclaimed main character, Buckley, as Veronica, at times seems unsure whether to play it straight or over-the-top, but ultimately provides a (relatively) stable center for the story...
...trendy area of Xintiandi, where the Lakeville apartments are probably China's most coveted properties. The next batch of Lakeville units isn't expected to be finished until mid-2006, but nearly 1,000 people have already registered to be notified as soon as they go on sale. Shu Yin Lee, who runs a property syndicate that made millions by buying five Lakeville penthouses while they were under construction, says he gets calls every day from agents with clients eager to buy them. But even after doubling his money, he's holding on, arguing that superluxury flats will only...