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...likely first stop. Beijing last year proposed a new program, nicknamed "the through train to the Hong Kong stock exchange," that would allow individual Chinese to buy stock in Hong Kong for the first time. The city is a natural platform for Chinese investment, says Saskia Sassen, a Columbia University professor and a leading expert on global financial networks. "On one hand, Hong Kong's base is China," she says. "On the other, it's part of the global economy." Sassen recently ranked 50 cities based on their suitability as global financial hubs. Hong Kong rated fifth, just after Chicago...
...primary, if you extrapolate from the 2004 primary returns. "This particular election is kind of hardest, if I can put it that way, for the African-American female," says Jennette Williams, 55, a black Georgia public-schools employee who took her grandson Dimitiras, 5, to hear Clinton speak in Columbia. Williams plans to vote in the Feb. 5 Georgia primary, but she is undecided between Clinton and Obama. "You have this opportunity to see either the first woman or the first African American...
Similar joint programs are offered by Columbia, which partners with Juilliard, and by Yale, where students in the college can also study at the School of Music...
...Harvard, Thursday night’s revelry appears to remain safe for now. Psychology researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia found that students who do not have classes on Fridays consume twice as much alcohol on Thursdays as those who do have Friday classes...
...evidence for the U.S. case. Skeptics say Washington sees in the encounter as much a p.r. opportunity as a bona fide threat. "The fact that it comes a couple of days before the President sets off on his trip raises questions," says Professor Gary Sick, an Iran expert at Columbia University...