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This time, Novak's idea might be the right one at the right time. The menus at East Dawning restaurants don't offer overtly American fare but still attract Chinese consumers because of the quality and service associated with an American brand. The formula developed by Yum's other banners overseas--cheap food delivered in cheerful surroundings--has provided a welcome mat for the company. Diner Frank Li, a project engineer on a trip from Suzhou, says the restaurant's link to KFC and Pizza Hut is a draw, not a drawback. "Those places are good quality," he says...
...college students, and the elimination of income tax for senior citizens earning less than $50,000 per year. This type of targeted, creative relief is exactly what America needs.Obama also has a practical approach to dealing with immigration. His proposals adhere to the basic formula we believe is best: reducing shoring up boarders and reducing the incentives to immigrate illegally while bringing undocumented workers already in the country out of the shadows with a demanding path to citizenship. While Obama is in favor of increasing border enforcement beyond what we feel is necessary—for instance he voted...
...which case, Washington will, doubtless, decide that it has to find another horse to back. If it follows the usual formula, the Bush Administration will probably decide that Bilawal and Zardari are its new best friends. That may do little for Bhutto's heirs - being seen as a friend of the U.S. is not a great way of ensuring a long and quiet life in Pakistan - and may do little for the U.S. as well. For what the world desperately needs if Pakistan is to avoid another 60 years of tragedy is a political settlement there that does not depend...
...savage reflection of the state of American culture itself. This article speaks truly of America and of what will happen to it on that day when the increasing power of Spanish, Chinese or perhaps other Asian languages ensure that Anglo-American will no longer be the language of the formula and of universal translation. France as metaphor for America. Anti-French hostility as a displaced form of panic which dare not speak its name. Classic. Bernard-Henri Lévy, IN THE GUARDIAN...
...Americans, French culture is something at once detested and desired. If an algebraic formula could summarize its quintessence, it would look something like this: De Gaulle + Sartre + the baguette + Sophie Marceau's breasts = French culture. Whereas we know very well French culture is infinitely richer. That France is lacking artists of Proust's stature is undeniable. That French cinema is weaker than at the time when the nouvelle vague was giving absolute lessons in filmmaking to the rest of world cinema is obvious. But it is rather simple to show that the conception that we have of art has also...