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...diplomat close to Perry. And Jiang remains the Party's propaganda darling. In the last 10 days of November, Jiang's photo appeared on the front page of the Party's mouthpiece, the People's Daily newspaper, 10 times, com-pared to Hu's single showing. With Jiang staying atop the army, Hu better get used to saluting...
...That, and timing. While the rest of the world's telecommunications companies stagger through what is being described as an industry depression?one marked by network overcapacity, crushing debt loads, stalling customer growth and desiccated stock prices?Mittal sits atop what is probably the world's last great growth market. India has more than a billion citizens, and most missed the late-1990s surge in mobile phone adoption. That means there's a near- virgin market of a billion (albeit mostly impoverished) people still waiting to join the wireless world. Now they are starting to sign up. In the last...
...first day of Mineko Iwasaki's life as a geisha. Wrapped in a turquoise-and-orange satin kimono, hair piled atop her head and secured with red silk bands, face covered in a wash of white makeup, the young maiko, or novice geisha, was ready?and she wasn't the only one. When Iwasaki stepped outside her home, she was greeted by applause and congratulations from a swarm of admirers who had come for a glimpse of the young geisha's debut...
According to Ann Marie Cody ’03, one of the officers of Student Astronomers at Harvard Radcliffe (STAHR), students were invited to a “viewing party” atop the Science Center after it became clear that a group trip to see the shower from a Glouscester beach would be oversubscribed...
...want to introduce his own ideas. "I think he's got two years," says an editor at a Party-run newspaper. "If he doesn't have a platform by then, he's lost his chance." The best Hu can hope for is that Jiang will surrender his position atop the military in March and his power will ebb slowly over the next few years. But it doesn't appear likely that Jiang will be sitting in his rocking chair at his Shanghai home, letting Hu run the country...