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...much of its history, Hong Kong has used the harbor as an inexhaustible supply of land. Reclamation has enabled Hong Kong to grow both physically and economically. But the fill-and-build model has led to a backlash, and in 2004 lawyer and activist Winston Chu won a court fight to block a 26-hectare reclamation project in Wanchai, east of Central. "There is a very strong community call to stop all this continuing infilling of the harbor, which I think is totally valid," says Fung. "But still I think we need to finish it up and build the best...
This year much of what [President] Carter gets from Congress will be largely due to Byrd, a night-school lawyer who is a first-rate legislative technician. His job is to act as the Senate's traffic cop, controlling the flow of legislation and debate. A master of the Senate's rules and precedents, Byrd hustles through an endless round of meetings with committee chairmen, powerful Senate barons and rebellious mavericks, trying to head off trouble ... During last year's session, Byrd's first as majority leader, he ran the chamber with a firm and sure hand that...
...lost on a connecting flight, or the guys to whom your company has outsourced its data processing. Every night, young radiologists in Bangalore read CT scans e-mailed to them by emergency-room doctors in the U.S. Few modern Americans are surprised to find that their dentist or lawyer is of Indian origin, or are shocked to hear how vital Indians have been to California's high-tech industry. In ways big and small, Indians are changing the world...
...White House aide Karl Rove, who generally won't approve any flight that costs more than $500, was waiting for his Southwest Airlines flight from Baltimore to Manchester, N.H., to take off last week when he got a stunning BlackBerry message from his lawyer, Robert Luskin: "Fitzgerald Called. Case Over." Patrick Fitzgerald, the special counsel investigating the leak of former CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity, had sent a fax saying that absent any unexpected developments, he did not anticipate any criminal charges against Rove. The message to Luskin from Fitzgerald--who said nothing publicly--was an unrequired, if welcome...
...more than that,” said Bok, “he loved Harvard and what it stood for at its best in a way that no ordinary lawyer could ever love his client...