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Though he doesn't know it, shop manager Zhu Baohua is on the front lines of the battle to reform the global economy. Zhu's three-floor electronics store, crammed with Sony TVs, Motorola cell phones and HP PCs, is located in a nondescript neighborhood in the western Chinese city of Xi'an. Far from China's dynamic coastal manufacturing and financial centers, Xi'an for decades has been an economic backwater known mainly as the home of China's famed terra-cotta warriors, reminders of the city's glory days as a capital of ancient dynasties...
...malls, big box retailers and strip-mall centers to monitor activity today in different parts of the country. "I purposely went to the same mall in Short Hills, N.J. at 9 a.m. as I went to last year, he says. "Last year [on Black Friday] I parked in the front row, and this year it took me about 20 minutes to get a spot." (See pictures of expensive things money...
...with about four minutes left before the break, junior Kate Buesser got the puck behind the Big Green’s net, skated around the front, and crossed it to Dempsey, who was there to put it in for the first goal of the game. But Harvard’s 1-0 lead lasted only a minute, as Dartmouth quickly responded with a goal from sophomore Jenna Hobeika. The period came to a close with the score tied...
...intentions in the region, has left him portrayed as a stooge. His political opponents appear increasingly united, while mounting fury at rising prices, shortages of wheat and sugar, and a wave of terror attacks that Islamabad seems powerless to stanch, have seen his popularity nosedive among a public in front of whom he hasn't appeared for months...
...power goes on, many have become more vociferous in blaming their mistakes on the past and old enemies. I'm thinking particularly of Zimbabwe. Are you jettisoning that liberation movement baggage? Zuma: Nobody can deny that when Zanu-PF [Robert's Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front] came on the scene, there was a lot of delivery, in health and remarkably in education. But what they lacked is what we are doing: realizing when things are not going right. After a decade or so in power, the success of liberation begins to challenge you. The situation tests your...