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Just as he learned about how to deal with the rough patches from Mike’s miscue, Shirley’s advice has helped him fight through the team’s early-season struggles as well...
...aloof father (Pierce Brosnan) by living wholly without purpose, all the while fiercely protective of his sister Caroline (Ruby Jerins), which may or may not be due to their older brother’s suicide. One night, Tyler and his roommate Aidan (Tate Ellington) implicate themselves in a street fight, and a cop (Chris Cooper) throws the roommates into jail. After Tyler’s father bails them out, Aidan hatches a plan for Tyler to vindictively seduce then dump the cop’s daughter, Ally, who shares a class with Tyler. Predictably, Ally and Tyler fall in love...
...door before stepping into the world's most populous nation. That was the price of doing business - it's what the Chinese government required - and most have been willing to pay it. But Google's rebellion, which includes openly soliciting the U.S. government's support in the fight for Internet freedom in China, has revealed a basic truth that was never far from the surface: big companies in China are welcome as long as they serve the interests of the ruling party. Google, obviously and loudly, has failed that test - and has been lambasted by Beijing for, as the State...
...truth, for both Beijing and its trading partners, is that commerce is already politicized to an extent rarely seen before. A fight between Washington and Beijing over the value of China's renminbi is part of that. So too are the noises China is making about requiring all government purchases to be from companies that "innovate" in China - a proposal that foreign high-tech companies fear is a way to cut them out of deals. At a moment when Beijing is increasingly confident of its own economic stewardship, these squabbles have the potential to intensify, further poisoning commercial relations...
...Containing the Fallout To be sure, the spat with google is an embarrassment for China. It's a fight that "does not exactly promote the image of China as a forward-looking, technologically sophisticated country," according to one U.S. lawyer based in Beijing, echoing a common sentiment. But at the same time, Chinese authorities must be hoping that the dispute can be contained. After all, with a mere 2% of its $26 billion in revenue derived from China's search business, Google is one of the few multinationals that can take a principled stand...