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...mind, left school early and taught himself business and accounting--everything he needed to know to run a small dairy service. Grove's mother, a spare, lovely woman, raised him in their two-room 19th century apartment. From an early age Grove was marked as the son of a capitalist and as a Jew. His parents hoped that with hard work he could overcome the prejudices...
...clear that the Internet is now the domain of the venture capitalist, not the adventurous academic," Joseph Bordogna, acting deputy director of the NSF, told a Congressional subcommittee in September...
...East and the West at the start of the Cold war. As one critic wrote of it, "It is one of the most beautiful, most exalted of [Prokofiev's] works...this great work shows once again how immeasurably superior Soviet music is to the music of the Capitalist West." Ironically, aside from a few such critics, the symphony had a poor reception in the Soviet Union, and thus was not published until 1949--in New York...
...grew up in China and both of my parents suffered extensively throughout the Cultural Revolution as my family was labeled "blacks" and "capitalist-roaders." Yet, even with this past, I find myself speaking out about how people must look at the present situation with objectivity and reality before jumping on the band wagon in the name of human rights...
Jiang's schedule for Friday includes a breakfast in New York with former president George Bush and a foray into the capitalist world. Jiang will ring the opening bell for the New York Stock Exchange, a publicity event tinged with irony because of the stock market roller coaster this week, precipitated by the Hong Kong market's dramatic decline. Jiang will not be greeted in New York by either New York Mayor Rudolf W. Giuliani or Governor George Pataki...