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...biggest stumbling block might well be the ambivalent feelings of his own people toward China. Fear of domination by China is still widespread among Taiwan's population and Ma might have to tread carefully or risk a backlash. Even those in favor of closer relations, like Kaohsiung's Wayne Lee, harbor lingering fears of the consequences. "We have to ask ourselves if it is worth making a lot of money for 10 years and trading away our sovereignty," he says...
...borders and closed minds alike. The former lure indocumentados into risking their lives getting here and straining the social infrastructure once they do; the latter cause xenophobes to ignore the causes of illegal immigration - the deep poverty down there and the deep demand for cheap labor up here - and block the necessary and reasonable proposals for managing it (a la last summer's immigration reform debacle...
...short in the end, 30-27.Kuld led the Crimson with a match-high 14 kills, and Weissbourd followed close behind with 12 of his own. Rapp posted nine digs, and Nathan notched five digs, while Kuld recorded four digs. Weissbourd, senior Jamie Crooks and sophomore Soren Rosier all reached three block assists.Despite the pair of losses, the Crimson remains hopeful for the rest of the season. “We have three more matches in conference, and if we win out those matches, we’ll get a chance against Penn State,” Nathan said...
...That success isn't a given. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will decide by early April whether to block the deal on the grounds that it would substantially reduce competition in the Australian media market. Among the issues is whether the young Murdoch is acting alone through his private investment company, Illyria, or in part for News Corp., of which he remains a nonexecutive director. Having done the sums on Murdoch's estimated $1 billion equity contribution to the bid, business author Neil Chenoweth says, "For Lachlan to be doing what he's doing, family money...
...center?” Why does a department of a non-profit need a Director for Business Planning and Development? And why, oh why, has the intellectual home of Larry Summers and Harvey Mansfield been allowed to banish the free market from what has always been the basic building block of the human economy: food. The time is long past for a change. Students, faculty, and most of all house masters and resident deans need to band together, come up with a reasonable solution, and strip control of food from HUDS...