Word: barreled
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...Africans, the Chinese are benefactors who send doctors and engineers and build roads, stadiums and hospitals. As I barrel down the smoothest stretch of tarmac (which was built by a Chinese firm) connecting the Kenyan capital Nairobi to Mombasa, village children greet me, with my half-Asian features, by cheering: "China road, China road." In Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, where Zheng He's ships once landed, the city's biggest sports facility is called the Chinese stadium. "It is very simple," says Zhu Xiaochuan, China's economic and commercial counselor in Nairobi, as he sips imported jasmine tea. "Africa needs...
...calamity channel," and he does a lively riff on the marathon coverage that followed John F. Kennedy Jr.'s fatal plane crash in the summer of 1999. After a while, though, all this mockery of the excesses of TV news begins to seem a fish-in-the-barrel (or a carp-in-the-teacup) sort of enterprise...
...wake of the dot-com bubble-burst, in which it became apparent that most of those instant-celebrity analysts - and the Internet stocks they blessed with hundred-dollar price targets - had been full of hot air, Wall Street found itself staring down the barrel of congressional scrutiny and decided to polish its own image...
...blooded Americans dislike anything more than a president in a sweater, it's a president - and a vice-president they figure is doing all the work - who are congenitally cozy with the folks they think are deliberately putting them over a barrel...
...that is younger and includes more women and more non-politicians than usual--notably Japan's first female Foreign Minister, Makiko Tanaka. But it's hard to find a clear pattern: one of his economic advisers favors corporate restructuring and repairing the banking system; another leans to traditional pork-barrel politics. Koizumi's immediate problem is that dramatic reforms take time to implement, and the Japanese public that adores him today will turn on him tomorrow if he doesn't produce results--and so might the L.D.P., if it fares poorly in upper-house elections in July. Says Gerald Curtis...