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...Sina's no-frills headquarters in Beijing, set in a former primary school, employees openly talk of what's next. "I'm nervous," says one Web writer, as she sits in front of a whiteboard filled with scribbled translations of the English words for superstar, IPO and Red Herring. Sina's top lieutenants are committed to globalization?the company distinguishes itself with websites aimed at overseas Chinese worldwide. But these days, they take slim comfort in the idea that China has done so well in establishing local brand names that the multinationals can't just bulldoze them out of existence...
...dead or disappeared, and that Presley and Haley have since languished in their house as intellectual and emotional preteens. Did they kill their parents? Red blotches around the set’s living room hint at some bloody work done in the past. Yet the mystery is a red herring. The play, by British scribe Philip Ridley, is more interested in exploring the ins and outs of the characters’ skewed psyches, notably as depicted in the clash that comes when Presley sends Haley into a drug-induced sleep and admits an outsider into their home...
Mansfield's comments are a red herring. Administrators can rightly take him to task for not citing evidence. But they have admitted that the College gives minorities a "plus" in the admissions process--a system that is affirmative action in practice if not in name...
TONY KARON: The Navy says the civilians sitting at two of the three control stations aboard the USS Greeneville were not a factor in its collision with a Japanese vessel during an emergency surfacing routine. Is this issue something of a red herring...
...MARK THOMPSON: It's not a red herring, but it's not really significant either. It simply looks really bad. The civilians may have been sitting at the controls during the emergency blow, but they were not controlling the vessel. Nobody controls a submarine's course during such an exercise. It's like a cork floating to the surface - nobody's driving it; it's driven by its own buoyancy. The issue is who gave the order to begin the surfacing procedure, on the basis that there was no danger on the surface. That was the ship's command...