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...officials expressed dismay at the sentences for Chen and Wang, which were the longest meted out. Senior officials had been working on the cases since last November. Said State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler: "The speed of the verdicts, the limited opportunity afforded the defendants to prepare a defense and the inability of independent observers to attend the trials inevitably raises questions of justice, fairness and due process...
...charisma were all that counted, Ed Sullivan should have been pink-slipped after his first broadcast (on what was originally called Toast of the Town) in 1948. Yet for 23 years after that, for millions of Americans, Sunday night at 8 belonged to CBS, home of television's longest-running prime-time vaudeville, The Ed Sullivan Show...
...those who don't, and adults began invoking it with an ingenuity and appetite that their offspring could only dream about. The situation in the Persian Gulf was invoked as a cause of the recession -- or as President Bush is fond of calling it, the temporary interruption in the longest economic expansion in history. Likewise for the two-week closing of the Folies-Bergere in Paris, John McEnroe's dropping out of a tennis match in Milan, the pricing of the video release of Ghosts at $100 instead of $19.95, and the New York Giants' refusal to take part...
Does the Treasury's reform program stand a chance in Congress? Experts say that limiting deposit-insurance coverage has the brightest prospects in the wake of the S&L bailout. Lawmakers may also look favorably on letting banks expand geographically. The odds are probably longest against permitting banks to diversify into new businesses...
...Crimson's fifth straight win, the longest streak in Roby's Harvard tenure, sets up what the coach calls a "fun game" at undefeated Princeton, who defeated Dartmouth, 64-52, last night...