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...popular sports in China like badminton, table tennis and kung fu - games you won't find front and center at nearby Niketown. Li Ning consciously decided not to shed its Chinese identity as it expands overseas, hoping instead to ride the growing influence of Chinese culture. Jay Li, the general manager of Li Ning USA, predicts that as Chinese soft power expands, China's tastes "will become part of the fabric of mainstream culture." Says Li: "When the tide starts to turn, we want to be one of the brands to bring a new, modern China to the rest...
...Darling's call Wednesday, March 24, for a global tax on banks to help recover the billions in public funds doled out during the crisis. "We intend to get all taxpayers' money back," the Chancellor of the Exchequer said during his budget speech to Parliament, his last before a general election expected in May. Charging banks to help do that, Darling added, was an issue on which "more countries agree...
Douthat also criticized Harvard’s General Education curriculum and its Core Curriculum predecessor for not focusing on the “great canon of western thought...
...very] technically skilled, has good ‘lab hands,’” Thompson said. “[She is] better than any undergrads I’ve worked with, better than some grad students. [She’s] excitable and enthusiastic about science in general, and about her research projects in particular...
...they went unchallenged on Capitol Hill. Still, as far as the U.S. government and the rest of the international community is concerned, Israeli construction in East Jerusalem is settlement activity. Whereas U.S. Presidents typically use words like unhelpful to describe it, on Wednesday the mild-mannered U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon was more forthright, denouncing the new housing units planned by Israel in East Jerusalem as "illegal." Israel's claims on the parts of the city it captured in 1967 are not internationally recognized, and Netanyahu's claim that Jerusalem is Israel's capital is called into question...