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...this makes Clinton's response even more vital. With the debate on normal trading relations with China (a precursor to WTO entry) on hold due to a breakdown in talks between China and the European Union, now is the time for Clinton to make a strong case for open trade with China. China's entry into the WTO would give the world one more lever to secure economic, if not political, openness and to encourage the rising class of Chinese reformers. Clinton has made the case that economic freedom will necessarily lead to better political conditions, but has cited little...
...tremendous desire to succeed, who nevertheless vacillates between prideful confidence and fear of the future. He rejects financial help from his family but must turn to them after a reckless spending spree in Spain; he works himself so hard that he is constantly ill and even suffers a nervous breakdown; he becomes depressed following the rejection of his first book by the publishers. These details remind us beyond doubt that there is a fallible human being who exists behind the mystique of the writer...
Although neither man knew it yet, the Web's most popular portal was being bombarded with enough confusing information to cause the digital equivalent of a nervous breakdown. Normally, Yahoo absorbs a couple hundred million bits of data each second, meaning it can handle millions of Yahoo users asking simultaneously for, say, the lowdown on Ricky Martin without breaking much of a sweat. But now Yahoo's Internet service provider, Global Crossing--Hannan's company--was clogging up with as many as 1 billion bits a second...
...likely to work out, even by Y3K: we love each other, we males and females--madly, sporadically, intermittently, to be sure--but at least enough to keep us pair bonding furiously, even when there's no obvious hardheaded reason to do so. Hence, despite predictions of the imminent "breakdown of the family," the divorce rate leveled off in the 1990s, and the average couple is still hopeful or deluded enough to invest about $20,000 in their first wedding. True, fewer people are marrying: 88% of Americans have married at least once, down from 94% in 1988. But the difference...
...disservice when he broke down on the witness stand Monday; his emotional testimony provided a standard of grief that the other officers couldn't quite live up to. On Tuesday, Kenneth Boss and Richard Murphy took the stand, and their composure - at least in comparison to Carroll's near breakdown - made them seem almost icily calm...