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SPIES LIKE US? Just days before Secretary of State Colin Powell's visit, Beijing experienced a bout of benevolence, releasing three Chinese-born U.S. scholars convicted on charges of spying for Taiwan. Gao Zhan and Qin Guangguang were sprung on "medical grounds," while Li Shaomin was expelled

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"In reality, it was those people who put him in that situation ... who were wrong."
GIULIANO GIULIANI,
father of a protester slain in Genoa, explaining that violent anti-globalization demonstrators are as responsible for his son's death as the...

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