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The Naisbitts posit eight future developments for China; none are insightful. There's "Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones," which meant something when Deng Xiaoping uttered this maxim of pragmatic, step-by-step reform, but has become little more than a cliché three decades on. "Emancipation of the...
Each generation of media has an oedipal relationship with the last. New technologies are born - radio, TV, the Internet - and either kill what came before or render it less relevant. Just so for years, the story of big-network TV has been how it's slowly losing out to cable...
Street vendors first appeared in Japan four centuries ago, when the Edo shogunate issued special vending passes to merchants who could not afford a storefront. The practice was briefly suspended during World War II when food was rationed, but in the decades that followed, street vending, catering to a new...
The Crimson certainly hopes it can maintain this winning attitude, as it bids farewell to co-captain Louis Caputo (184) as well. Caputo—a two-time All-American himself—had a disappointing end to his career, bowing out to longtime nemesis Phil Keddy of Iowa in...
Pilgrim's Way is the gracefully written memoir of John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir) who grew up in Scotland, attended Oxford, served in Parliament, and was Governor General of Canada at the time of his death in 1940. A prolific author, he lived as well as wrote about history. His portraits...