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...Democrats' growing interest in shielding kids from pernicious pop culture comes at a time when the party is increasingly worried about closing the "parent gap"--the G.O.P.'s big edge in support among married parents of young children. The topic will be front and center at this week's conference of the Democratic Leadership Council in Columbus, Ohio, where the party will be urged to support such ideas as requiring cable companies to create family-friendly packages of channels. Attending the centrist group's event, along with Clinton, will be Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack and Indiana Senator Evan Bayh...
...embody the industrialized world's fears of a hypercompetitive mainland staging a hostile takeover of global manufacturing. Led by the U.S., critics accused China of clinging to the dollar peg in order to keep the yuan artificially weak, making its exports extra cheap and fostering a worrisome trade gap with the U.S. that ballooned to a record $162 billion in 2004. Unless Beijing changed its currency policy, a trade war loomed. Still, Beijing wouldn't budge, leaving businessmen and investors across the globe guessing as to when this uneasy status quo might finally change?and how dramatically...
...Still, this initial yuan adjustment will do very little in itself to address China's yawning trade gap. Merrill Lynch predicts that China's trade surplus could exceed $90 billion this year?nearly three times larger than in 2004. U.S. critics of China will likely keep agitating for a full float of the yuan?mean-ing that it would trade at whatever exchange rate the market determines. "We expect more," said U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, one of the sponsors of the bill that would impose a punitively high tariff on Chinese imports...
...indicating “that Harvard students are dissatisfied with access to faculty and the quality of social life on campus,” referring to Committee on Financing Higher Education (COFHE) data leaked to the Boston Globe earlier this year. That data showed a statistically significant gap between Harvard and its peer institutions in levels of student satisfaction...
...brother and I began to discuss buying property together again--this time in Shanghai. China's economy is growing at 9% a year, and Shanghai is the epicenter of the boom, yet apartments there still cost far less than in Hong Kong, Tokyo or New York City. That gap will close, says Marc Faber, an emerging-markets expert who writes a newsletter called the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report. "Eventually," he predicts, "Shanghai property prices will be higher than prices in New York...