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...stunning growth of the Chinese economy is one of the most amazing stories of our time?but as countless business leaders can attest, there are as many perils as potential riches in the China market. Get things wrong and you'll find yourself in all sorts of trouble. That's why it is so important to have at your side advisers who know China inside out. This week, our story Let it Rain! profiles five such guides, including one who learned his key business lessons when exiled to the Gobi Desert during the Cultural Revolution, and another who likes...
...imposed a rule: she and her friends could recount their entire bad day without comment from me but only after I heard three good things that had happened to each of them. Some days the best I heard was, "Well, lunch didn't suck." But I can attest to the long-term effects. For the next three years, our ride home was far more pleasant. And when my now 21-year-old daughter calls to talk about things going wrong, she always brightens her mood by relating something good. Happiness is a habit best learned early. Karen Reddick Yurka Manzanita...
Sadly, we will never again recapture that bygone age of innocence. But, as anyone in attendance at the Harvard intramural dodgeball tournament at the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) one week ago can attest, we can come pretty damn close...
...those who are now jobless will attest, their superiors had told them that the company, in response to dire economic straits, could not afford to pay them anymore. Thus, the most reasonable solution to bring back these jobs that have been lost is to revitalize the economy. Many suggest that the government should introduce a new cash flow into the economy, either through tax rebates or through massive public projects, but there is a simpler way. Many of the United States’ largest employment industries often spend much of their money complying with very strict Environmental Protection Agency...
Plucking children from obscurity and making them stars, even for one movie, can be perilous, as the kid actors from almost any '80s TV show can attest. And even Fernando Ramos da Silva, the illiterate Brazilian boy who starred at 12 in Hector Babenco's Pixote, returned to the streets and, when he was 19, was killed by police. There are milder dangers: Boyle is worried that Etel, having carried his first film, might be disappointed if he doesn't get another big role. "The business can be very loving and also very hurtful, almost simultaneously," Boyle says...