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Something is about to change--but almost certainly for the worse. Higher labor costs, a strengthening Chinese currency and soaring raw-materials prices are bad enough. Now a slowdown in global growth and a likely full-blown recession in the U.S. are about to stress-test China's manufacturing sector like never before--and could result in the shuttering of thousands of factories and cost hundreds of thousands of workers their jobs. Makers of low-end goods are already suffering. The Guangdong city of Huidong was home to 3,000 shoe factories at the beginning of 2007, but as many...
...Obama should be reminded that opposing war is very different from ending it. As bad as things in Iraq might now be, anyone can see that a total absence of American troops would have terrible human and strategic consequences: no Iraqi state government, a full-blown ethnic showdown between Sunnis and Shiites, Kurdish independence leading to conflict with Turkey, and the discourse of Islamic extremism would be vindicated. In addition, this ‘Iraq-sized’ no-man’s land reminiscent of Somalia, would be between Israel and Iran. Where the proceeds of the sale...
...late season championship stretch (and a road date with archrival Brown), the Crimson prepped itself to play two opponents with significantly different levels of talent. Six seniors were honored on Senior Day as Harvard welcomed No. 14 Hartwick to Blodgett Pool. Despite the festive occasion, the Crimson was blown out for the second time this season against the visiting Hawks, 19-5. Yesterday, Harvard coach Erik Farrar reached deep into his playbook as he shuffled players into different positions and ran out new defensive schemes en route to an 18-4 victory over Queens College.HARVARD 18, QUEENS 4Provided with...
...tool for personal exploration. But Koons soon tired of this sentimentality and felt that he was revealing too much of his sexuality in his work. “I wanted to know about things outside myself,” he says. He found his answers in inflatable objects. Blown-up lobsters and bunnies somehow connect Koons to the external world. For example, the rabbit that appears in so many of his works is a signifier for Playboy, masturbation, and the Easter Bunny, to name just a few. He feels that the layering of cultural meaning that he is able...
...This site has blown up. The creator just got a six-figure book deal. And... he's ignited a minor existential crisis in me. My dad is black and my mom's Chinese. What do I care about stuff white people like? But, when it comes to race in America, nothing's quite that easy...