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Keep Your Fingers Crossed When bubbles finally do burst, recent history has shown, they tend to do so with a bang. Is China, in fact, now at the end of its real estate boom? Many are not convinced. They point to a couple of factors that make China's situation...
If some predictions are well-worn, others are downright dubious. "Freedom and Fairness" is the most problematic. This is a country where dissidents disappear and where the legal system can be twisted. Yet China's brutally efficient machinery of repression and state capitalism is, in the Naisbitts' gushing parlance, "a...
As chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, did you feel you did enough to help South Africa move past that dark chapter in its history?
House Democratic sources credited Representative John Dingell, the longest serving member in the history of Congress and dean of the Michigan delegation, for bringing Stupak around. Stupak, a Dingell protégé, was in tears when Dingell lost his House Energy and Commerce gavel to Henry Waxman last year...
The Sinai's people are mostly Bedouin - a formerly nomadic Arab people with a distinct culture and dialect - though Mwafi is unsure of their exact percentage of the population. The Bedouin in Sinai are Egyptian and have been for as long as Sinai has been Egyptian - but that hasn't...