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...Some foreign activists believe a boycott will gain support among Chinese liberals, and a few Chinese rights activists such as lawyer Gao Zhisheng agree. But most average Chinese, whatever their anger at Beijing's repression, eagerly await the Olympics. Across China, nearly everyone I have met is proud of the Beijing Games, and a boycott will only turn them against the West. Without a doubt, China's state-controlled press would play up this angle, using a boycott to demonize Western nations and to fuel Chinese nationalism, the country's most potent, and dangerous, political force. In January, the People...
...bank run, more or less. And the scary thing was that there is no entirely satisfactory explanation for why it hit Bear. One may emerge as JPMorgan Chase's bean counters dig through the books, and some have fingered rumor-mongering short sellers who stood to gain as the stock dropped, but for now it mainly looks like just a sudden crisis of confidence. Which could conceivably happen to anybody. "It's a good old-time panic," says Scott MacDonald, co-author of Separating Fools from Their Money: A History of American Financial Scandals and director of research at Aladdin...
...them would say, 'That's a sellout. You're in bed with the developers, and you're losing your design freedom,'" he says. (Coren jumps in, adding, "They have said that.") But Pasquarelli insists that because they had sunk their own money in the project and stood to gain only if the apartments sold, they won the confidence of their developer partner Brown. They were able to convince him that if they took the design in any novel directions?which they would do?those wouldn't be the kind that turn off potential buyers. "The developer started to trust...
...Since China wants to join the world community," the 14th Dalai Lama said as I was traveling across Japan with him for a week last November, "the world community has a real responsibility to bring China into the mainstream." The whole world stands to gain, he pointed out, from a peaceful and unified China-not least the 6 million Tibetans in China and Chinese-occupied Tibet. "But," he added, "genuine harmony must come from the heart. It cannot come from the barrel...
...party, the legislature and - importantly - both presidential campaigns. Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean has made it clear that any plan for a new vote in either state would need the endorsement of both Obama and Clinton. But Michigan is reportedly having trouble coming up with a solution that could gain enough support in the legislature, and with the Obama campaign as well...