NEWS A battle over media censorship in China intensified Monday with an outpouring of support for journalists at a Guangzhou newspaper who are protesting what they called overbearing censorship by provincial officials. Edward Wong reports from Beijing. Also Monday, state media said China would start reforming its draconian system of re-education through labor, as Andrew Jacobs reports from Beijing.
The seemingly endless series of delays and debacles entangling the new Berlin airport claimed its first political victim on Monday, after the project’s planned opening was pushed back yet again. Melissa Eddy reports from Berlin.
Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman, arrived in North Korea on Monday as part of a private delegation on what was billed as a humanitarian mission. Choe Sang-Hun reports from Seoul.
Imagine Walt Disney World with no entry turnstiles. Visitors would wear rubber bracelets encoded with credit card information, snapping up corn dogs and Mickey Mouse ears with a tap of the wrist. Disney plans to begin introducing a vacation management system called MyMagic+ that will drastically change the way its visitors do just about everything. Brooks Barnes reports from Orlando, Florida.
In the last days of November, Israel’s top military commanders called the Pentagon to discuss troubling intelligence that was showing up on satellite imagery: Syrian troops appeared to be mixing chemicals at two storage sites, probably the deadly nerve gas sarin, and filling dozens of 500-pounds bombs that could be loaded on airplanes. What followed, officials said, was a remarkable show of international cooperation over Syria’s civil war. Eric Schmitt and David E. Sanger report from Washington.
STYLE The fashions on the HBO series “Girls” may not be aspirational, but they are very much intentional. Where “Sex and the City” created a high-end, designer-driven fantasy, “Girls” strives above all else for authenticity. Karen Schwartz reports from New York.
SPORTS The ballot for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame includes Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa for the first time this year. It’s possible no one will get elected in 2013 because everyone who has played the game in the last few decades has been tainted by the steroids era, unfairly or not, Tyler Kepner writes.
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