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...SHOULD NOT TRY TO CONTAIN OR appease China, the upstart superpower, without first exposing the latter's Achilles' heel [WORLD, March 25]. The overriding reason for Beijing's saber rattling during Taiwan's presidential election campaign is that China's leaders are scared of the ripple effect that Taiwan's march toward full-fledged democracy will have on its own 1.2 billion population. The masses, having seen Taiwan progress from a backward nation into a free, prosperous country, may demand to choose their own leaders through a similar election or a plebiscite on China's communist system. The only thing...
...such sentiments confined to the hard-pressed Northeast. "The people of North Carolina want us to get jobs," declares Democratic Governor Jim Hunt. "They want us to compete." At Hunt's urging, the Tar Heel State's Development Board has proposed a package of tax incentives that include cutting the corporate income tax from 7.75% to less than...
...while Payless ShoeSource closes or relocates some 10% of its 4,500 discount stores, Gucci can't keep enough of its $295 high-heel pumps in stock. Nor has business slowed at Geary's Beverly Hills in that California city, where tableware goes for $1,000 a setting. Geary's wrapped up its best fall/Christmas season ever last year. Crows president Bruce Meyer: "Our customers want something to separate them from the crowd...
There is no Ginger Rogers linked immortally to Kelly's name, and that's no accident. For he was a solipsist who did not share the screen easily with anyone. Suspiciously good at playing hammy, self-serving show folks--see his hoofing heel in For Me and My Gal, his grandiloquent strolling player in The Pirate, and remember that the guy with the umbrella was a movie star not entirely displeased with the figure he was cutting--he occasionally made you wonder: Is he exercising egocentricity or satirizing...
...think the one Achilles' heel of PBHA is that we have student turnover every two years," said Lisa D. Graustein '97, programming cochair, adding that the new board would provide continuity to the PBHA governance...