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...number is a figure of considerable value, real as well as symbolic. The money, Beijing announced on Nov. 9, would go mainly to new infrastructure, homes, schools and clinics, especially in the country's poorer regions. Taken together with the recent alleviation of taxes plus changes to the rural-land law that will allow farmers to lease their land and free them to work elsewhere, the initiatives amount to what Jing Ulrich, the head of JP Morgan's China equities business, calls "a New Deal with Chinese characteristics...
...Mabini, a city of 41,000 overlooking the clear waters of Batangas Bay, used to be a busy farm town, where loaded trucks left twice a week carrying fruit to Manila. Today, nobody is making a living off the land. The local markets' produce comes from somewhere else, and the cost of living is inflated by residents' foreign salaries, which are easily 10 times local wages. In Little Italy, many workers have built sprawling, European-style homes - some complete with sweeping marble terraces, faux stone façades and fountains - years before they plan to return to the Philippines...
Post-Election Voices On the night before his death, Martin Luther King mesmerized a Memphis congregation with an address in which he said, "I may not get [to the mountaintop] with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land." On election night we watched as Americans from Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy, to California voted for a President based not on the color of his skin but on the content of his character. Now we know what Dr. King saw from the mountaintop. We have overcome. Today. Alan...
...night before his death, Martin Luther King Jr. mesmerized a Memphis, Tenn., congregation with an address in which he said, "I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land" [Nov. 17]. On election night we watched as Americans from Virginia, home of the capital of the Confederacy, to California voted for a President not on the basis of the color of his skin but on the content of his character. Now we know what King saw from the mountaintop. We have overcome. Alan...
...Instead of intellectual exploration,” he said then, “students will spend four years playing intellectual hop-scotch—jumping from square to square, trying to land on the right courses at just the right times.” —Staff writer Bonnie J. Kavoussi can be reached at kavoussi@fas.harvard.edu...