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...stage flooded with water. Taiwan's Cloud Gate Dance Theatre has presented its signature work, Moon Water, to ovations worldwide, but given the political rivalry between Taiwan and China, the company's recent turn in Beijing - its first in 14 years - was far from just another tour date...
...cabinet members were perishable goods, Alberto Gonzales would have passed his "sell by" date sometime last spring. Since January, when he first faced sharp questioning over the firing of U.S. Attorneys, the Attorney General has earned disastrous reviews for his inconsistent testimony, poor judgment and for appearing to place loyalty to the White House above service to the public. By June it was hard to find a Republican willing to defend him. Now Gonzales' dissembling testimony about a controversial domestic-spying program has raised suspicions about what he is hiding and fueled new calls for him to go. Senate Democrats...
Despite his tardiness, Greengrass won over producers with his analysis of the Bourne character and his comfort with fast-paced, naturalistic filmmaking, honed from his documentary work. Producers fixed him up on a date with Damon, who was by this point in Prague filming The Brothers Grimm for Terry Gilliam. At London's Heathrow Airport, with £15 in his pocket, Greengrass realized, "I'd better get some money, 'cause I'm taking out one of the world's great movie stars." His cash card was overdrawn. "So I spent the whole meeting with him thinking, Please don't order...
...point is that there is more, much more, where that came from. To date, China's economic engagement with the outside world has come largely via exports (it exported $969 billion worth of goods last year) and by attracting huge amounts of foreign direct investment, mostly from manufacturers taking advantage of its low labor costs. That is changing rapidly. A month ago, Beijing's recently formed State Investment Co. bought a $3 billion stake in the Blackstone Group just before the U.S. private-equity giant went public (an investment that so far is more than $300 million under water). This...
...date, most of the direct investments Chinese companies have made abroad have been relatively small, aimed principally at gaining access to key supplies of oil, gas and minerals in Africa and elsewhere. Much of this has gone largely unnoticed. Chinese companies, for example, quietly invested $4.2 billion in Russian companies last year. But some, of course, has been decidedly noticed. The country's investments in Sudan, which increased in early July when China National Petroleum Corp. said it would spend an additional $25 million developing an offshore field there, have become a global flash point given the carnage the Khartoum...