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...party. Hong Kong's air may be foul and its public-education system may lag that of competitors like Singapore, but somehow or other, it continues to reinvent itself. Almost 10 years after Hong Kong was returned to China by the Brits, the city remains a top regional base for scores of international companies as well as a magnet for overseas capital. Foreign direct investment in Hong Kong totaled $33.5 billion in 2005 (the most recent figures available); in Asia, only mainland China has attracted more FDI in recent years. Close ties to the booming mainland continue to drive Hong...
...Base this guy on anyone we would know...
...bother anyone. Indeed, a certain joie de vivre in the face of danger is as Lebanese as the cedar tree. As my Lebanese skiing buddy, Alex, said when an errant snowboarder went crashing through the plastic orange protective webbing separating skiers and the lunchtime crowd sunning themselves at a base lodge: "They ski like they drive...
...Colorado, visited Iowa and told reporters that he would be making a decision about running soon. Despite his low Q-rating, Tancredo presents the bigger of the two dark-horse threats. His signature issue - immigration reform - makes for the kind of sound-bite-friendly courting of the primary base and handsome visuals (miniature fence, anyone?) that can alter the terms of debate. And that's all Tancredo's really trying to do. If nothing else, he'll make life a little harder for John ("I'll build the goddamned fence if they want it") McCain...
...dead, and we killed 50 soldiers." And even if his count rarely matched reality, the chubby-faced 26-year-old knew how to spin a chilling quote, telling TIME last summer, after one particularly brutal suicide bombing in Kandahar had killed eight Afghan laborers working at a nearby military base: "These men were American servants, and they were punished...