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...Innovation or Oblivion Hong Kong and Shenzhen could still run into the bugbear of all corporate mergers: a clash of cultures. Hong Kong has the world's most open economy, according to U.S.-based think tank the Heritage Foundation; one with low taxes, a mature legal system and international standards of corporate transparency and regulation. The mainland, for all its explosive growth, remains hamstrung by corruption and a centrally planned economy. Beijing has taken slow, measured steps to open its financial markets, but obstacles remain. Because China's currency, the yuan, is nonconvertible, capital can't flow freely between Hong...
...precepts of equality and tolerance elect leaders in part based on their perceived ability to malign a religion that over one-sixth of the world’s population subscribes to? Many Americans, as a result, have developed the false sense that Islam and the West are destined to clash. This misconception of a binary opposition that hawkish politicians use to paint the picture of the current balance of world power allows politicians to sell an overly simplistic picture of America’s interaction with the Muslim world. By reducing America’s relationship to the rest...
...taking the E.U. to the same place his supporters say he brought Britain: the fabled "third way" between costly welfare states, and unfettered, even savage market forces. In a recently expanded Europe where attitudes in its older members, such as France with its generous social security systems, often clash with newer entrants with far less protection as with Latvia, the promise of Blair finding common ground as he often did in Britain will be inviting to many people. Elsewhere, however, he'll find hostility to his vision - and his positioning - just as strong...
...Priests clash at the Church of the Nativity...
University President Drew G. Faust said yesterday that she will consider creating a committee to investigate free speech at Harvard. Faust’s announcement at the meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences came in the midst of an ongoing clash between anthropology professor J. Lorand Matory ’82 and law professor Alan M. Dershowitz. Matory has claimed that critics of Israel like himself “tremble in fear” from repercussions for their views and urged his colleagues to pass a one-sentence affirmation of “civil dialogue...