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...strictest and most repressive totalitarian state in the world, the first defectors that arrived in the South were "always suspicious," she says, and most had left relatives behind who could be sentenced to prison or even death for having a defector in the family. "They did not only complain of difficulties finding jobs, prejudice and adapting to life in the south," says Park Yun Sook, a professor of social welfare at World Cyber College in Gwangju who works with North Korean defectors. "They felt guilt all the time and were always scared their relatives might be punished." (See pictures...
...that Baidu's shareholders are likely to complain. The company already collects 64% of the revenue generated by search engines in China via advertising, according to Analysys International, a market-research firm, and claims 76% of overall search traffic. The comparable figures for Google are 31% and 20%. If Google soon shuts down its Chinese search engine (Google.cn) - as most analysts believe it will - Baidu will grab even more. Dick Wei, senior analyst at JPMorgan Securities in Hong Kong, estimates that if Google loses a quarter of its China traffic, Baidu will reap a 6% gain in revenue; the gain...
From that day until his death on Jan. 27 at age 91, at his home in Cornish, N.H., Salinger was the hermit crab of American letters. When he emerged, it was usually to complain that somebody was poking at his shell. Over time Salinger's exemplary refusal of his own fame may turn out to be as important as his fiction. In the 1960s he retreated to the small house in Cornish, and rejected the idea of being a public figure. Thomas Pynchon is his obvious successor in that department. But Pynchon figured out how to turn his back...
...complaints. Fastman attended with a few of his housemates, expecting to hear from Davis about the city manager’s report. Instead, Fastman said they were bombarded by false allegations from neighbors, aside from Hamilton, who had never approached him, Allison J. Fastman, or Brasher in person to complain prior to that meeting...
Liberals (in the blogosphere, at the grass roots and in Congress) complain that the President is a spineless, incompetent quitter. Conservatives (on Fox News and talk radio, at tea-party confabs and in Congress) insist that he is a panicky, on-the-run liberal. Old media sputter that he is a flailing, directionless Jimmy Carter redux. (See pictures of Barack Obama's first year in office...