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Foreign-owned hotels in China face the prospect of “severe retaliation” if they refuse to install government software that can spy on Internet use by hotel guests coming to watch the summer Olympic games, a U.S. lawmaker said Tuesday.
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Author John Le Carre, real name David Cornwell at his home in London, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008.
