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That's what China's new investors think, too. Punters gathered to swap stocks and stories at the Beijing branch office of the China Galaxy Securities brokerage house on Jan. 29 certainly weren't letting a small drop in the market that day dampen their spirits. "I guess the fluctuation...
So confident are the assembled san hu that they don't regard their activity as serious business. They use wan, Chinese for "play," to describe it. If the market tanks, the san hu won't be the first to discover that investing is not a game.
5) Shorts go far: The competition to get a short film into Sundance is fierce and the quality of the movies that make it into the festival is high. Usually outshone by the feature competitions, shorts got to screen to wider audiences this year because anybody who couldn't make...
All my life people have told me that my father changed their lives. They got involved in public service, in the Peace Corps and in their communities because he asked them. To me, the generation he inspired is perhaps his greatest legacy. And they in turn have inspired generations that...
Genius is rare; genius blessed with longevity is miraculous. That Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) made the most of these twin gifts is attested to in his sketchbooks, which cover 73 of his 92 years, a span that transformed our way of seeing. Je Suis le Cahier: The Sketchbooks of Picasso...