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...that too gloomy a conclusion? Maybe. Younger Japanese have lived just as long with an economically powerful China as an impoverished one. Catering to this crowd, Morning Musume, a Japanese version of the Spice Girls, added two new singers to its nine-woman line-up this year. Both are Chinese. The move was no doubt geared toward attracting a Chinese audience, but the group's producer is equally keen on maintaining a Japanese fan base. "I had older relatives who told me not to come to Japan because of what it did to China during the war," says Li Chun...
...female self-sabotage the reason women hold only 2.6% of FORTUNE 500 CEO positions? You'd think so, to read this sincere but Pollyannaish book. Shambaugh argues that self-defeating behaviors like allowing work to crowd out family and friends and failing to assert oneself are holding women back. "Remember," declares the author, a Washington human-resources consultant, "once women free themselves from the sticky floors, there is no glass ceiling. Instead, the sky is the limit!" If only it were that easy...
...were invited to Warren's global AIDS summit, but only Clinton showed up. (Barack Obama attended last year.) And she pointedly refused to play the outsider. "Twenty-five years ago, when mostly young gay men began dying, we certainly did not talk about it in church," Clinton told the crowd. "We've come a long way." She still has a way to go. In a recent Pew poll, the lifelong Methodist was seen as the least religious candidate...
...income Hispanic student from a low-income community, where I speak English 30 percent of the time, I can’t tell the difference between Roy and Matt,” she said at one point, drawing a stunned reaction from the crowd...
...campaign rallies, they're the head cheerleaders, whipping up enthusiasm in the crowd. At a multi-candidate steak fry, straw poll or debate, they're the ground troops fighting the "sign wars" - a surprisingly intense competition to put up the most campaign placards...