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...When news of their letter hit the international press, police summoned Liu and warned her to avoid further publicity if she didn't want her brother's life to get worse. Last week during the visit of U.N. High Commissioner of Human Rights Mary Robinson to Beijing, both Liu and Zhang were kept under close police scrutiny. Plain clothes cops wielding video cameras even followed them to the park where they often meet to chat during their morning exercises. Fearful of what the police might do, Liu didn't dare talk to her friend. She met Zhang's worried gaze...
Normally, this column space tried to avoid ragging on the officiating, but Dan Murphy should be demoted to the squirt league for his job in this game. Not only did he engage in the traditional ECAC practice of makeup calls, but his incessant use of the whistle denied almost any flow to these games. Moreover, when Jelenic went over to taunt Jonas and sophomore defenseman Aaron Kim came over to keep him in line, Murphy did the right thing by assessing Jelenic a misconduct, but he failed to give him a minor penalty. Therefore, Yale was rewarded by the sequence...
Because these tilted tax cuts would make it impossible to pay off the national debt, Bush has conveniently redefined the debt so as to avoid the need to repay it. The administration claims that $1.2 trillion of debt is locked up in bonds that cannot be paid off for at least a decade without incurring heavy penalties. However, both the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan have estimated that this figure is too high by more than $400 billion. It is inexcusable for the Bush administration to declare victory and go home when billions in redeemable...
...study reported that many students might avoid seeking mental care for fear of the stigma attached, an especially serious problem during college years when "serious and potentially disabling psychiatric conditions" are likely to occur...
...president's inexperience on the diplomatic stage was evident from the fact that White House aides immediately rushed to play cleanup. After all, the North Koreans are notoriously skittish and paranoid - not the sort of folks you want to accuse of cheating if you want to avoid unpredictable confrontations. So senior administration officials rushed to put out the message that there was, in fact, no evidence that North Korea is violating the terms of its only agreement with Washington - to freeze plutonium production at a suspected nuclear weapons facility - and that the President's comments referred only to his fears...