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...were sentenced to death in connection with a $10 billion oil-, car- and cigarette-smuggling case in the southern port city of Xiamen. The alleged ringleader Lai Changzing is currently fighting extradition in Canada. But despite Jiang's declaration of war on financial scams, cases involving powerful officials often get held up or dismissed because of "lack of evidence." Jiang himself is not above protecting his friends. When the Xiamen case was on the verge of implicating the wife of Beijing party chief Jia Qinglin, a friend of Jiang's, the President effectively blocked the investigation by appearing on television...
...Chicago Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., say they expect just the opposite from George W. Appointing Powell and Rice, they say, would be a way for Bush to court the group that spurned him most. "I've heard Republican strategists like Newt Gingrich argue that if they could just get 15% of the black vote, they would be in power for a millennium," says Jackson, who at 35 is showing signs of being as wily as his father. "So I'm expecting Bush to make an unparalleled effort to reach...
...Buchanan. And there are the random voters who had the misfortune to vote in heavily Democratic precincts using antiquated machines that have an undercount rate five times as great as those with modern equipment. I'm Irish. I know from grudges. My guess is that they don't get over...
...into his Groundhog Day. Election night was bad enough. After leaving dinner when Florida was called for Gore, Jeb was back in the family's bosom, a hero for all of 30 minutes when Florida moved back into Bush's column. When the polls shifted again, W. tried to get Gore not to retract his concession by citing Jeb as a controlling legal authority that he had won Florida. W. was wrong then, but may yet turn out to be right. If Gore wins the contest, and the legislature has picked its own electors, then Congress, on Jan. 5, will...
Call it the revenge of the real-world retailers. After years of being told they didn't get the Net, sites like Walmart.com and Target.com are suddenly the fastest-growing shopping destinations on the Web. Over the past five weeks, visits to "multichannel" dotcoms (a.k.a. clicks-and-mortar, those with a catalog or store behind them) have shot up 67%, compared with a 42% seasonal rise for "pure-play" merchants (which exist only online, like Amazon.com) Walmart.com alone is gaining 80% more cybershoppers every week. Incoming CEO Jeanne Jackson raised eyebrows when she closed the site for renovations two months...