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INPUT: “Harvard’s expansion into Allston will dislocate residents and gentrify the entire neighborhood, yet another example of Harvard’s dispassionate corporate, capitalist model...
...these leaders, the art of the Chinese deal is about more than making a profit; it's about building a modern capitalist economy. "Foreign investors who bring money and technology to private domestic firms are doing exactly the right thing," says Yasheng Huang, author of Selling China: Foreign Direct Investment in the Reform Era. "If you can structure your investment so that you take advantage of China's growth story without having to depend on its economic system, you have most of your success right there and then." We say, let it rain...
...NEXT: Sowing Capitalist Seeds...
...study art, giving the story a personal verisimilitude that makes "Four Immigrants" not only the first graphic novel, but the first autobiographical graphic novel as well. But the two characters who quickly take the book's center are the ne'er-do-well Charlie and Frank, the budding capitalist. Continually rebuffed in their efforts to earn money, Charlie, the tall, lanky one who spouts aphorisms, and Frank, the short, chubby one, look and act like the Mutt and Jeff of Japan. Unlike Mutt and Jeff, however, Charlie and Fred's difficulties are almost exclusively a result of their race. They...
...tangerines. On wooden tables under makeshift awnings, merchants peddle not just pork and fish but also Japanese televisions and VCRs, South Korean cosmetics, fashionable sportswear from China and illegal sex videotapes from western countries. If you know whom to talk to, you can even purchase a home, an outrageous capitalist sin in a country where private property is ideological anathema. "You can buy anything and everything in the market," says Park, a trader who sells televisions she brings in from China. (Like all North Koreans that TIME talked to for this story, Park spoke on condition that her real name...