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...Although it marks an important step in the country's slow metamorphosis from Leninist monolith into a uniquely Chinese amalgam of authoritarian socialism and chaotic capitalism, the travails required to secure passage of the new law underline the difficulties China's rulers face as they attempt to fashion a coherent legal and financial system for the country. It has taken 13 years and eight readings (only three are technically - and in most cases, practically - required) to get the bill successfully passed. It was originally scheduled to pass last year, but was dropped after Party conservatives (diehard Maoists who felt that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Gets a Property Rights Law | 3/16/2007 | See Source »

...friends in public school rarely finished their whole book but I often had to do school throughout the summer to finish math or science. I never once had a summer off.”HELPING THE HOMESCHOOLERS ADJUSTIt is almost midnight back in Weld 52. The scene is chaotic once again as Norberg stresses to finish a 10-page Expos paper, the room covered in papers, highlighters, and MLA style books.Slouching in his chair, dejected, Norberg is surrounded by his roommates. They gather around him, peering at the haphazard words on his computer screen...

Author: By Logan R. Ury, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In a class of their own | 2/28/2007 | See Source »

...blog is a mess of Harvard—chaotic, highbrow and low. A place where a former College dean debates the husband of a former Harvard vice president about Ivy League athletics while others speculate elsewhere about the immigration status of Yiddish literature professor Ruth Wisse’s cleaning lady...

Author: By Samuel P. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lights on at 'Shots in the Dark' | 2/26/2007 | See Source »

...Homans, chairman of the New Mexico Spaceport Authority, saw the list of global companies participating in the X Prize in 2004, he says it suddenly dawned on him that the new space industry might look just like the early computer industry--a bunch of crazy guys. "They start with chaotic, crazy inventors and entrepreneurs--colorful characters, some of whom are living hand to mouth, on the verge of going out of business." Critics have suggested that he's the one with the screw loose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Space Cowboys | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...Blocos can be - and are! - organized by drag queens, filmmakers, journalists, or just drinking buddies. This one today was especially designed for children, hence the battalions of infants dressed as clowns, butterflies, fairies, pirates and superheroes. Like most blocos, it was typically Carioca, that is, loud, chaotic and great fun, which explains its success. "We're sick of the Broadway element [of official carnival]," said Roberto da Matta, one of Brazil's best know anthropologists. "It's a 12-hour show and no one can stand it. So if you go to the city center or to a pra?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing Carnival Back to the People | 2/14/2007 | See Source »

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