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...TIME: Do you like American society now? LEE: I admire American society. But I would not want to live there permanently. If I had to be a refugee, like [former South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen] Cao Ky, who went to California, I would choose Britain, a less stressful society. [But Americans have] a can-do approach to life: everything can be broken up, analyzed, and redefined. Whether it can or it can't, Americans believe it can be solved, given enough money, research and effort. Over the years I have watched the Americans revise and restructure their economy, after they...
Three decades or so after his injury, Howie lives in his boyhood home in a Midwestern town that could be Cleveland, Ohio. With both his parents dead, he has a makeshift family of housemates that includes Nit and Nat, affable slacker lunkheads, and Laurel Cao, a level-headed, sexy Vietnamese American from Texas who makes gourmet soups for sale to local shops. He also has a steady, undemanding job doing maintenance and yard work for a local convent. What he does not have is any particular hope for the future...
...SUSPENDED. CHEN JIULIN, 43, chief executive of China Aviation Oil (CAO); after the company revealed a loss of $550 million on trading in oil derivatives, the largest Asian trading scandal since Barings Bank collapsed in 1995; in Singapore. Chen, who was raised in rural China in a house with no running water, rose to become one of Singapore's highest paid executives after he turned around CAO, the Singapore-listed subsidiary of a Chinese state-owned company, which was given a monopoly on China's jet-fuel imports in 2001. CAO notified its Beijing parent of its growing loss...
...last representatives of China's prerevolutionary glamour sits in a ramshackle courtyard, somewhere in the maze of Beijing's fast-vanishing hutongs, or alleyways. For 60 years, master dressmaker Cao Senlin, tel: (86-10) 6526 4515, has been producing the slinky silk dresses known as cheongsam. And although you could get these at one of the modern tailors that have sprung up in the capital, you would be missing out on a historic opportunity if you were to bypass the 78-year-old's tiny, 150-square-foot atelier...
...uninitiated, the traditional Chinese cheongsam is a tightly fitted garment, with side slits that go as high as the wearer dares?from modest notches above the knee to attention-grabbing openings as high as the upper thigh. Precision tailoring is vital, and that's why Cao's clients flock to him from as far afield as Hong Kong and Taiwan. "I have made thousands of cheongsam," he says. "How could I remember how many?" Still, he has kept up with the trends. "Women used to be more modest," shrugs Cao. "Now they want everything tighter, shorter and more colorful." Prices...