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...surprisingly, comparisons are being drawn between China's stock boom and the U.S. dotcom bubble of the late 1990s. Certainly there are similarities, such as a frenzy for initial public stock offerings. As investor demand for Chinese stocks has intensified, so has the list of mainland companies eager to cash in on the mania by going public. In 2006, Chinese companies raised more than $53 billion in the Hong Kong and Shanghai markets through IPOs and secondary share offerings, up from $24 billion the year before. Among them was the largest IPO in history, November's $22 billion listing...
...proposals could start as early as this academic year if they are received favorably by the Faculty and administration, said Theda Skocpol, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the task force’s chair.While Harvard’s teaching quality has often drawn fire from students, the task force’s work represents a remarkably intense piece of internal criticism from a group of senior professors.The report paints a sobering picture of Harvard’s current teaching culture, in which effective classroom guidance is considered a matter of “individual talent...
...Democrats may still prefer to vote for a harsher antiwar resolution in the hopes of goading Republicans into a politically risky filibuster. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin has introduced a bill that would block funds for the war, and has drawn support from some on the left. For its part, the White House is resisting a compromise, working to repeat the success it had in watering down Warner's military-tribunals bill. When I told Warner some Democrats are worried that this might happen again, he said, "There is a case history out there that justifies that concern." He closed...
Conference participants included moderate business, church and political groups, as well as officials of the all-white Natal provincial council and blacks from largely self-governing KwaZulu. The ruling National Party sent observers but did not participate in the sessions. The meetings in which the reforms were drawn up became known as the Indaba, the Zulu word for meeting...
...Ocean Breeze, requests for a castle and a space station were approved, but grownups nixed a plea for a haunted house lest it attract graffiti. After the diagrams were drawn up, community leaders received from Leathers' firm spiral-bound manuals detailing exactly what lumber and tools were needed. Some critics have voiced concern about the safety of volunteer-built playgrounds, but Leathers insists only the best materials are used and the workers are strictly supervised. "One thing we have learned is that we can't cut corners," says Leathers. "Playgrounds have to be tough because kids put them through such...