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...occupiers of Xiantang's city hall are hoping their protest will force Beijing to act. So far, the police have not moved in to evict them, probably because Xiantang is small and the discontent shows no sign of spreading. But the villagers' resolve is fading. "People have to get back to work," says one protester. Beijing can no doubt win this skirmish by ignoring it. But the war on corruption will not be won by looking the other...
...each has a leftist President--Chile's Michelle Bachelet is also a socialist--the ABCs are spelling a model, "pragmatic socialism," says Jerry Haar, an international-business professor at Florida International University in Miami and a co-author of Can Latin America Compete? "They're managing the precarious balancing act between Milton Friedman and Santa Claus," says Haar, "drawing both to a more globally competitive middle...
...sometimes necessary to jettison a bit of skill for sociability. "Talent is not just an individual trait but a social one," he says. That's true for high-performance business teams too: affable B players often bring out the best in the superstars. "They are lubricants; they can act as a buffer between the others...
Everything that happens in the tea industry, of course, depends on its workers. The Plantation Labor Act of 1951 guarantees not just a minimum wage for workers in tea, coffee and rubber but also housing, education, medical care and drinking water. Those benefits add about 11% to production costs and are the main reason Indian tea costs about $1.62 a kg to produce, compared with $1.23 in Sri Lanka, $1.16 in Kenya and 84¢ in Malawi. Strong unions in India's tea-growing regions have fought to preserve those benefits. Tea-estate workers are paid on average...
...look was reassuringly ordinary: a smiling, Waspy face under a helmet of graying hair. But what he did onstage was unsettling. His act was in part that of an entertainer at a kid's birthday party--juggling, fashioning balloon animals, wearing a gag arrow through his head--but the whole thing was set within ironic quotation marks. It was stupid-smart: a clever man playing someone with misplaced self-confidence who didn't realize he was a buffoon. This guerrilla comic in a three-piece suit was daring the crowd to get it. And for a long time, there were...