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...fittest but also of the nimblest. When Fung took the firm public in the early 1970s--the first Chinese trading company to list on a stock market--he displayed his knack for timing. Unencumbered by generations of cousins and uncles, Fung was able to take advantage of the dawn of the roaring Asian tigers, moving his manufacturing operations to Taiwan and South Korea, then Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines, networking with Asia's entrepreneurial Chinese diaspora. Today about half the firm's manufacturing is done in China. "The truth of the matter is, as things shifted, we were better...
...animals and fish of every kind, spirit figures and the imposing, fearsome effigies of the great Rainbow Serpent--are as impressive as anything in the caves of Lascaux or Altamira and tens of thousands of years older. As far as we know, the Australian Aborigines stood at the very dawn of human imagemaking...
...much aired in monarchist circles. And Australia has always been short not only of convincing shared ceremonies of national identity but also of shared folk heroes. You can count them on less than two hands. Two are alive--the great cricketer Donald Bradman, now 91, and the swimming champion Dawn Fraser. The veterans of Gallipoli, a few of whom still live, are invested with a collective heroism. The other heroes are dead. They include a racehorse, Phar Lap; and a criminal, the bushranger, Irish nationalist and protorepublican Ned Kelly, hanged for theft and murder in Melbourne...
...police to address the crowd. Before she had a chance to speak, she was bundled into a waiting police car. "I have been given no reason to be arrested," she screamed, as the police slammed the door behind her. Asim Awan, a presenter for the local independent TV station Dawn News, observed that the police were allowing senior level politicians to give speeches and press conferences outside Bhutto's compound, but that lower-level workers were shut out or arrested. Said Awan: "The government knows [the workers] are the machine that keeps Bhutto's party going...
This is fine for the summer, during which post-work walks or scrimmages actually take place. It’s stupid, however, for the winter, when people who have to rise early would need to spend an extra hour in the cold and dark pre-dawn. Privileging the late-risers for the entire year (by doing away with the recent switch back to Standard) would be wrong...