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...Edwards split may be a special case, but the Hopper schism appears to center on an all-too-familiar family bugbear, money. Neither of the Hoppers' lawyers would comment, but their divorce filings indicate this may be his way of choosing sides in a looming fight over his estate...
Mountain High, Emperor Far Away No matter how well intentioned, China's stimulus package may provide little more than a short-lived growth blip if officials are unable to control the perennial bugbear of Chinese economic development: pervasive corruption in local and provincial governments, which make their own way far from the brilliant technocrats in Beijing. (Read "The Secret Memoir of a Fallen Chinese Leader...
Since then, the perpetrators of the struggle against Santa have taken on many forms; just about every major bugbear on the radical left has at one point or another been blamed. In the beginning, of course, there were the Jews. "The whole record of the Jewish opposition to Christmas...shows the venom and directness of [their] attack," wrote automaker and notorious anti-Semite Henry Ford in 1921, citing efforts around the country to silence Christmas carolers and suppress demonstrations of religion in schools. By the 1950s, blame had shifted to the Communists. "One of the techniques now being applied...
...Innovation or Oblivion Hong Kong and Shenzhen could still run into the bugbear of all corporate mergers: a clash of cultures. Hong Kong has the world's most open economy, according to U.S.-based think tank the Heritage Foundation; one with low taxes, a mature legal system and international standards of corporate transparency and regulation. The mainland, for all its explosive growth, remains hamstrung by corruption and a centrally planned economy. Beijing has taken slow, measured steps to open its financial markets, but obstacles remain. Because China's currency, the yuan, is nonconvertible, capital can't flow freely between Hong...
...Whether this is a change with mass, as well as Mass, repercussions isn't clear yet. It will certainly affect every Catholic churchgoer every Sunday, although admittedly not anywhere as drastically as would the ultimate liberal bugbear, a return to Latin exlusively. And by definition the changes are in tone rather than content. Yet to some the tone is of a record running backwards, towards a linguistic stiltedness that will discourage rather than invite Catholics to think about what they are saying. One of the most prominent switches is from the exchange between priest and congregation: "The Lord be with...