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...goods supplied by factories in the developing world to multinational retailers. Hong Kong, says Dennis Cicetti, group managing director of product-sourcing firm William E. Connor & Associates, is "the command and control center" for much of world trade, particularly for thousands of factories in southern China that gush forth consumer goods. Although Hong Kong has relatively few factories on its own soil and a population of just seven million, only 10 nations see more trade travel across their borders. The city is "totally underappreciated," says Merle Hinrichs, chairman of Global Sources, a Hong Kong company that publishes trade magazines...
...back-and-forth game that featured seven ties and 11 lead changes in the second half, the Harvard men’s basketball team used some strong offensive performances down the stretch to take its Ivy League home opener over Dartmouth, 77-71, at Lavietes Pavilion. Senior center Brian Cusworth, one of six Crimson players in double figures, scored a team-high 20 points and grabbed a career-high 17 rebounds as Harvard (8-8, 1-1 Ivy) avenged an 80-73 loss in Hanover last Saturday. The win also snapped a four-game losing streak for the home team...
...back-and-forth game that featured seven ties and eleven lead changes in the second half, the Harvard men's basketball team used some strong offensive performances down the stretch to take its Ivy League home opener over Dartmouth, 77-71, at Lavietes Pavilion...
...inspiring look at life within a Karen Christian village (and the ongoing Karen insurrection), and of his own unlikely passage from guerrilla and waiter to Cambridge student. Even Amy Tan's last novel, Saving Fish From Drowning, is set in Burma, among American tourists who bat back and forth the arguments for and against boycotts. Thant Myint-U does not command the page as these others do, but he gives us both the savory details and the cruelties of colonialism, as well as a rare feel for palace intrigue. In the process, he suggests that isolation is in fact just...
...It’s a comfort issue and a fit issue. They’re like me and I understand them and I trust them and so forth, and those are the sorts of things that make it difficult for women,” she says...