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...Twin cities usually grow up together. For Hong Kong and its dark alter ego Shenzhen, the relationship is something more akin to step-twins. Shenzhen was virtually decreed into existence: in 1980 Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping clicked his fingers and invited the people of dynamic, British-owned Hong Kong to make something of the 3.5 sq km stretch of fishing villages and rice paddies just over the border. What arose was a kind of twisted sister, a town of skyscrapers and sweatshops, laissez-faire business and institutionalized lust. Shenzhen is where Hong Kongers go to make love and make money...
...subject to the same rules as undergraduates. There could be legitimate reasons for a mass e-mail from the president: to notify students of a major university policy, for example, or to send public safety warnings, as many Houses do. This e-mail, however, strikes me as more akin to a personal position statement, making use of resources not available to the other side of the living wage debate in an attempt to sway student opinion. That seems less like a Harvard University Police Department alert and more like Rudenstine sending us his endorsements for local congressional races, informing...
...investment, the ship is somewhat akin to a $262 million, 12-decker mobile home: it starts to depreciate as soon as it's driven off the lot. But for residents, investing is not the point. "At no time do we discuss with them a return," says Fredy Dellis, the Belgian-born chief executive of ResidenSea. "What we're selling is a unique lifestyle." The World's maiden voyage is not until January 2002. But the drawing board is dazzling, with plans for onboard art exhibitions, a Swiss-run spa, a full-size tennis court and driving ranges, a retractable marina...
...international community would do well to remember this lesson in its dealings with China. Beijing is currently seeking something akin to lunch money on a global scale: the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. And Beijing is also a bully of the first order: China continues to perpetrate its unceasing human rights violations. Awarding Beijing the Olympics would wrongly condone these abuses and encourage China to go on flouting the world’s concerns and the dignity of its own people...
...Horowitz said the current climate for debate about race was akin to "racial McCarthyism," where politically incorrect views were met with smear tactics and other attempts to suppress debate rather than foster open discussion...