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...Might Your cover illustration for the " Italy vs. China" stories [Dec. 5], on the trade competition between the two countries, showed them arm wrestling with equal muscle, but Italy is really no match for the Chinese giant. China is getting stronger and stronger and will soon move on to conquer the next country or continent. China wins with a simple, convenient formula: a communist social structure, a capitalist economy, small concern for trade rules and a furious rush. As an Italian politician said, If China had our union leaders, it would not survive for long. Franco G. Sclano Rome Exit...
...back from the dead and tried to turn America into a conservative Muslim paradise—is about to be answered. Robert P. Young ’06 is finishing up “Reagan Returns,” a film that shows a reanimated Ronald Reagan attempting to conquer the United States. The film, which is unrelated to Young’s VES coursework, has been his pet project since last year. When an evil Secret Service Agent, played by Nathan D. Turner ’05, reanimates Reagan, the ex-president joins forces with Osama bin Laden...
...remembers that she “showed mad respect and mad love for my homeboys when they visited.”It is not a desire for fame or money that motivates RZA to move in to film, but rather that he’s looking to conquer a new realm that fascinates him, he says. Nor does he want to be seen as leaving his roots behind. “I didn’t make a transition from the music world to the movie world; I made a bridge, bringing the two worlds together...
...uncommon to fear speaking in public. But with Microsoft readying a revamp of its ubiquitous PowerPoint, Apple leaping ahead with its user-friendly Keynote 2, and new gadgets and software making it easier to shine up your speeches, now's the perfect time to conquer stage fright with some cool new tools...
...Some thought that South Africa and the Middle East proved what might be called the Exhaustion Theory of Peacemaking -- which arises from the cynical, and accurate, observation that peace is the last resort when all else has failed. True: if either side had been able to conquer, it would have let victory dictate the peace. All that said, the settlements-in-the-making in the Middle East and South Africa were hardly involuntary, and they were far from inevitable. Without Rabin and Arafat, the Israelis and Palestinians would have continued down the same bleak, violent road they have followed since...