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...that. Clearly, for China - whose voracious appetite for metals and minerals drove commodity prices sky high until last year's bust - the timing is now right. "These [Chinese] companies know this slump, while deep, will not last forever," says Xu Minle, a Shanghai-based analyst at logistics company BOC International. "China is now making strategic investments overseas at a comparatively lower cost...
...Hallett said. The emphasis of the night was on giving thanks in different forms as each group shared a prayer before the meal’s start. “Everyone celebrates Thanksgiving,” said CSA’s Vice President for Spirituality Marisol Boc ’09. “It supersedes religion—even if it’s just the people around us we thank, not some higher being.” Rebecca D. Gillette ’10, vice president for community relations for Hillel, emphasized the universality of Thanksgiving...
...feel that many students are confused and disoriented. We can’t decide which way to go—to have sex or to not have sex,” said Reina M. Boc ’09, of the environment at Harvard, which she said is not conducive to dating...
...paper tied to the subprime debt market. And in Hong Kong, Goldman Sachs issued a warning recently that some of the biggest mainland Chinese banks that trade on the Hong Kong exchange - including the Bank of China - were also exposed. In early August a spokesman for the BOC had said its first-half losses tied to subprime investments were "minimal." But in the wake of the nasty BNP Paribas surprise half a world away, investors everywhere were understandably - and increasingly - skeptical. Did top management at any financial institution anywhere really know the extent of the damage? Did regulators...
...Sandison and Marcus Eoin are hardly exemplars of the high-tech urban culture. While many of Warp Records’ other IDM (so-called “intelligent dance music,” although it is seldom danceable) groups use the trendiest technology to produce cold, hyper-digitized beats, BoC has rejected “laptop music” and, instead, embraced the wavering grittiness of analog equipment and out-dated sound samplers. The reclusive duo produce their mind-altering music—sprinkled with hi-fi distortions of tape-recorded voices, instruments, and film clips—without leaving...