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Disturbing the Dead As Democratic donor Larry Lawrence's body is disinterred from Arlington National Cemetery, will the most macabre scandal to grip the Clinton administration backfire...
...against dissidence--and winning. While the Chinese government wouldn't have let Wei go without pressure from the U.S. and President Jiang Zemin's successful summit with Bill Clinton, China ultimately risked little in Wei's departure beyond a brief loss of face. Because the government has a tight grip on information, Wei and other exiles can do little to get their message heard at home. Even now, most Chinese don't know...
...solemn" and wearing a "forced smile." Fahey had reason to want to move on. According to friends, she had finally found happiness with a man her age, bank executive Mike Scanlan, now 33, whom she met through Carper. She had begun daydreaming about bridesmaid dresses and had got a grip on a long struggle with bulimia (the 5-ft. 10-in. Fahey reportedly once dropped...
...true that I don't have as good a grip on the problems facing China as I do on, say, the problems facing the New York Knicks. Still, I feel like I have enough to conclude that there's some pretty bad stuff going on over there. And I'm confident that at least some of that bad stuff is being organized by the government...
...interchanges between characters or delicate exfoliations of complex relationships. Producers want the bragging rights that come with classy literary adaptations--especially as the awards season looms. They also want to make movies about figures like Catherine, who can be seen as both feminist victim and, once she gets a grip on her emotions, feminist heroine. But they don't want to pay the price for these desires: embracing the intricacies and ambiguities of their sources...