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...like everyone I know is going to law school. There are plenty of other options. Some of the people at the "Reunion at the Union" a few Sundays ago were talking Shearson Lehman and Goldman Sachs. And some of them don't even act guilty...
...Hopefully Deng Xiaopeng will not die first and some of the hardliners will," says Merle Goldman, a professor of modern Chinese history at Boston University and a research associate at the Fairbank Center...
...Goldman points out that the United States is China's largest trading partner, with more than $8 billion total trade yearly if good shipped through Hong Kong to other destinations are taken into account. She says the U.S. should use those trade considerations to force political and human-rights concessions...
...This is not like under Mao. The Chinese government wants interaction with the United States," Goldman says. "If they lose most-favored-nation, they lose their low tariffs and their goods are no longer competitive in our markets...
TAXMAN, SPARE THAT TREE. The winners of the first Goldman Environmental Prizes, a new award for champions of Mother Earth, were supposed to get $60,000 apiece. Not so fast, says the IRS, which is demanding that the foundation withhold some $22,000 in federal and local taxes from the five foreign winners. Lois Gibbs, the U.S. honoree, will not be docked since she is obliged to declare her winnings as income (prizes to Americans, including the Nobels, used to be exempt, but no longer are). The notion of taxing people like Kenyan Michael Werikhe, who is fighting to save...