Thursday, May 3, 2012 Last Update:
“I want to come to the U.S. to rest,” said the dissident lawyer Chen Guangcheng, speaking from Beijing to members of Congress by way of a cellphone held up to a microphone.
Chinese citizens have to refer to Chen Guangcheng in a coded way.
Facebook set the estimated price for its initial public offering at $28 to $35 a share, according to a revised prospectus. The company is expected to begin trading in two weeks.
Al Qaeda’s senior leadership was split by debates on tactics, strategy and even marketing in the months leading up to the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
“The Dictator,” the latest movie from Sacha Baron Cohen, features a new guise for that actor: an African despot who takes up residence in Brooklyn.
With few places to turn, construction workers have colonized Craigslist as the cyberspace equivalent of the street corner or the Home Depot parking lot.
One of the nation’s largest pension plans filed a lawsuit against Wal-Mart’s board and some of its executives.
The Palestinian cause’s newest heroes are gaunt adults, wrists in chains, starving themselves in Israeli prisons.
A print tucked into an old text at Brown University was signed “P. Revere Sculp,” and Marie Malchodi, the librarian who found it, knew it might be big.
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Policemen stood guard at a flag lowering at Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
At 24 years old, sleeping in a bed alone for the first time.
Joss Whedon’s long-awaited superhero opus “The Avengers” arrives with a big cast and frequent battles.
Crash-induced foreclosures on second homes haven’t been a real drain on the market, because most foreigners buy in cash.
For the Terrafugia Transition, federal regulators have had to determine which rules — aircraft or automotive — take precedence, because the vehicle is both.
Shellye Archambeau of MetricStream says that earlier in her career, she didn’t ask anyone directly about becoming her mentor, but that “I would just start treating them like it.”
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