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About once a month, a stream of black sedans with heavily tinted windows snakes through the gates of Zhongnanhai, the sprawling headquarters of the Chinese Communist Party, which occupies the southwestern corner of Beijing's Forbidden City. The limousines bear the 22 members of the party's Political Bureau, or Politburo. In legend, Communist Party meetings are endless, but since 2002, when Hu Jintao became General Secretary of the party (he became President of China the next year), Politburo sessions have been quite brisk. Typically, they are over by lunchtime, and then two top academics are ushered in to brief...
...Chinese company with a conscience? That runs counter to the world's current impression of the corner-cutting Chinese manufacturer that saves a buck by using lead-based paint on children's toys or that bars employees from bathroom breaks. Yet as bad press surrounding China Inc. grows, so does the number of mainland companies trying to improve their image through good works. While the corporate social responsibility movement in China is still small, it has some big names behind it. PC manufacturer Lenovo began a computer-recycling service last year. White-goods maker Haier has donated nearly $400 million...
...game was marked by solid defense. The Crimson’s first chance came on an early penalty corner, but junior Francine Polet’s shot missed just left. The teams then traded attacks throughout a first half which featured few scoring opportunities...
...mysterious darkness, ominous voices and crystal ball are notably absent from New Age Astrology & Crystals, which since September 1 has occupied a corner of A Taste of Culture on Mass Ave. Rather, the glass-furnished domain of resident psychic Sabrina (neither teenaged, nor a witch, nor willing to be interviewed or give her last name) more closely resembles a psychiatrist’s office. “Hon, I am a spiritual healer,” Sabrina says. Do not worry, Sabrina wastes no time with Mars-ravages-the-Twelfth-House gibberish. Within ten minutes of laying out the Tarot...
...faced foes such as Saddam Hussein's Iraq and, these days, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran. The United Arab Emirates, for example, signed a bilateral defense pact with the United States in 1994. The terms of that agreement remain classified, but the presence of U.S. forces in this corner of the Middle East is hardly a secret. About 1,800 U.S. military personnel, mostly with the Air Force, live on military bases here. And the U.A.E. Port of Jebel Ali, one of the few docks capable of handling a U.S. aircraft carrier, gets more visits from Navy ships than any other...