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...Conant and Provost Paul Buck were riding on a train together. Conant turned to Buck and asked, “What are we going to do about the Harvard-Radcliffe relationship...
...Shenzhen is Hong Kong's parallel universe: it has the energy of the megapolis across the border, the patented southern Chinese get-ahead ethos and a towering respect for the power of a buck. But thanks to loose laws, loose women and dirty officials, you can get anything you want: cheap labor, even cheaper Prada bags, pirated DVDs, ecstasy pills, one-night stands. (And people from across the border spent $846 million last year, 10% of Hong Kong's total retail trade.) But once inside this looking- glass world, nothing is quite the genuine article. The Louis Vuitton bags...
...Where there's a buck to made, someone in Shenzhen will make it. Wiwijaya, an Indonesian-born ethnic Chinese, tells the harrowing story of his brother, who was suffering from renal failure. He ordered a replacement kidney for $25,000 and, as a 26-year-old, made the journey to southern China from Medan in 1996. The transplant was successful, but when he returned for an internal checkup last August something went terribly wrong. His stomach swelled up, his new kidney collapsed and he fell into a coma. A second transplant was ordered. "But the doctor had another plan," says...
...Losers PETER BUCK Giving happy people shiners? Guitarist for the American rock group R.E.M. is arrested for assaulting two British Airways crew members ANATOLI KARPOV Rooked with his own petard! Russian chess champ loses to a Greek dental student who studied the master's moves on the Internet JENNA BUSH A chip off the presidential block? George W.'s 19-year-old daughter is ticketed for booze possession in Austin, Texas. That's a crime...
...wonder they didn't seem to care much either way. (A buck says Tina doesn't give one thin dime of her tiny after-tax, after-house haul to charity, and good for her.) By the end of it all, one wonders how many of the show's viewers cared either...