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...This fact has informed all of Tom.com's decisions. Wang, the CEO, is a mainland-born former Goldman Sachs executive director with sterling credentials in Beijing and an expertise in closing deals on the mainland. He has already formed a joint venture with the China National Publications Import & Export Corp., which controls 90% of China's foreign publication trade, and is letting its government-assigned managers help him decide which magazines and books to take to market. Tom.com also has strong connections with China's sporting industrial complex, which could come in handy come the 2008 Olympics...
...decline since a year ago. The decline has prompted cries of foul from U.S. manufacturers over the competitive edge a weak currency gives Japanese products. But an equal concern is that an ever weaker yen will force devaluations throughout Asia, exacerbating trade tensions everywhere. Says Kenneth Courtis, Goldman Sachs Asia vice chairman: "It is now really important to get Japan back on track economically, because their problems are about to become ours...
...irrecoverable loans is $135 billion, though nobody has ever trusted that figure: the only sure thing was that the mountain of bad loans from the bubble period, troubling enough at the time, has grown exponentially with bankruptcies and the decline in the stock market. Kenneth Courtis, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs in Tokyo, describes "Himalayas of debt crashing down on the economy." In January, Yoichi Masuzoe, a parliament member from the ruling LDP, gave voice to many unspoken fears when he pronounced, "By the end of March we will have a financial crisis - that is 100% true...
...Goldman, as portrayed by Zinn, was more than a political revolutionary. She was a woman with a feel for life’s intensity, a fierce sense of individuality and nearly constant love interests. Her (now published) letters to Ben Reitman, “anarchist among anarchists,” are written in prose erotic and passionate, characterized by controlled ferocity and terror over the loss of independence that comes with devotion...
...Goldman wrote that “conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.” In Zinn’s mind, the notions of unity and “unconditional support” that Americans are presented with today are “scary and totalitarian.” Dissenters have always held a great appeal for Zinn in his writing, and in practice, he believes that dissent is critical to a well-functioning society. (He notes a certain irony in the fact that first amendment rights are most limited when they are most necessary.) His arguments...