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...Chinese companies sometimes start out as carbon copies of successful overseas ventures. But replication doesn't happen overnight. Take Ctrip, the market leader for online travel reservations. The company, founded in 1999, initially hoped to be an instant Chinese version of Expedia but soon realized that rushing to provide the same features of the U.S. travel website - which offers package tours, hotel reservations, plane tickets, rental-car reservations and cruises, among other services - was a reckless, if not impossible, task. Instead, it focused on mastering one service before adding another. (See pictures of Chinese investment in Africa...
...Back in the day, you knew the photographers and you knew who they were shooting for. And there was a respect," says Martinez. "But that was before the craziness of Britney and Lindsay. Now you don't know what can happen on any red carpet. Some of those photographers get so rowdy. It's become all a bit much." (See the top 10 movie performances...
...square that he remembers rebuking a peer in his high school government class for saying in April 1974 that President Richard Nixon would be forced to resign. "I was historically smart enough to know that Presidents didn't just quit," Hanks says. "Not in America! That just doesn't happen!" (See the top 10 movies...
...arrange the trip. Forward and midfielder Christina L. L. Hagner ’10, hadn’t realized until fairly recently that the soccer trip, which was originally slated for last year, was on the schedule. “I had no idea this trip was going to happen and then just about three months ago it got announced that it would,” she explains...
...wait a minute. That didn't happen. Reid did make a statement; it was filled with platitudes, anchored by an emotional anecdote. It was the sort of statement that seemed old a year ago, when the health care reform death march began. It did nothing to advance the negotiations, or to discomfort the Republicans. It followed a very similar statement by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. It was followed by a raft of near identical statements by the other Democrats - almost all of them sclerotic committee chairs with far more seniority than debating skill. They produced a Woodstock of heart-tugging...