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...releasing part of their industry and government petroleum stockpiles. Even the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is doing its part: heavyweights such as Saudi Arabia have opened the taps, helping America fill the reserve's salt caverns in Texas and Louisiana with crude. U.S. oil prices, meanwhile, have fallen 15% since late September, to around $26.50 per bbl. --By Adam Zagorin/Washington
...Perhaps the most intelligently romantic of all wartime dramas is Ann Hui's Love in a Fallen City (1984), from the Eileen Chang novel about a lonely Shanghai widow (Cora Miao) courted by a dashing Hong Kong playboy (the young, magnetic Chow Yun-fat at his most Cary Grant-ish) in 1939. The Japanese invade Hong Kong, families and fortunes crumble, yet the glow of their hard-won rapture, of love deferred and love embraced, lights up the screen...
...long time," Sakakibara continues, "the dual economy worked." Throughout the 1960s, 1970s and most of the 1980s, Japan's unique form of bureaucratic capitalism was spectacularly successful. Beginning in the late 1980s, however, the world began to change. International competition has intensified dramatically, trade barriers elsewhere have fallen, China snapped out of its slumber, and Southeast Asia and South Korea have proven that they can match Japan as high-tech manufacturers and exporters. But rather than confront a new competitive landscape head on, Japan still acts as if it is a developing country that needs to be protected...
...Alan Kuperman, author of a detailed history of the Stingers' use in Afghanistan published in 1999 in Political Science Quarterly, suggests some of the Afghan Stingers ended up on the black market and could have fallen into the hands of a variety of groups, including Kashmiri rebels, Indian Sikhs, and Palestinian militants...
...users pay in the U.S. and Japan. That translates into lower overall profitability, and once-bullish analysts are growing more cautious about the prospects for China's mobile sector. Both CSFB and Goldman Sachs recently downgraded shares in China Mobile and China Unicom, which have fallen 21% and 34% respectively on the New York Stock Exchange this year...