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...vital part of a student’s experience of living in Cambridge have shut their doors. Store 24, one of two always-open establishments in the Square, closed two weeks ago. Video Pro, the Square’s only video rental store, and the Crimson Sports Grille, a bulwark of first-year social life, have both foundered...
...cultural flowering. It is on the brink of, dare anyone say it, nationhood--not in constitutional terms but, perhaps more important, in cultural terms. The 22.2 million Taiwanese and the rest of Asia as well have posited a Taiwan that is so much more than a cold war bulwark and superpower pawn. The island that used to be thought of as the un-China, the anti-Mao or, later, the chip fabricator, the hardware producer, is now, in its eyes at least, the bustling cultural center of Greater China. Of course, the mainland still dominates the Chinese world in geopolitical...
...enough. If reform is really going to work, Takenaka and his planners need to build out Japan's social safety net, providing economic padding--and a political bulwark--for the inevitable layoffs and business collapses. Koizumi and Takenaka also need to go into sales mode, a Japanese version of the Bush road show on taxes. And, on a technical note, Japan needs to let its currency slide. A weaker yen--say, 135 to the dollar--would strengthen corporate profits. The danger is that a sliding yen could set off a round of devaluations, as neighboring economies rush to slash their...
...unprecedented national awakening and cultural flowering of, dare anyone say it, nationhood?not in constitutional terms but, perhaps more importantly, in cultural terms. The 22.2 million Taiwanese?and the rest of Asia as well?have now posited a Taiwan that is so much more than cold war bulwark and superpower pawn. The island that used to be thought of as the un-China, the anti-Mao or, later, the chip fabricator, the hardware producer, is now the bustling cultural center of Greater China. Of course the mainland still dominates the Chinese world in geopolitical and economic terms, but whose soap...
...National Alliance. Last time he was in power, his majority depended on the support of the Northern Leagues, and that proved to be his downfall. This time, Forza Italia appears to have emerged as the largest party in Italy, having replaced the traditional Christian Democratic Party as the bulwark of the right. Although he still has the Northern Leagues in his coalition, their share of the vote was slashed to 4 percent and that means they?ll think twice before bolting his coalition, as they did in 1996, to bring it down...