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...that episode, which came during the first days in office of Premier Wen and President Hu Jintao, was a turning point. "The government learned the experience and the lesson from SARS," says Shen Kui, a professor at Peking University's law school, implementing new laws and regulations that made the process of crisis management more open and transparent. Even so, Shen says, "in a country where the people are used to hearing lies and cover-ups from its government, there is a certain amount of time required for people to get used to the more open approach. The first reaction...
...other lesson to be learned is not to exaggerate the consequences of these trade disputes. Back in the 1980s, Americans mistook Japan's edge in trade as a sign of their own economic ruin. Today, the whole idea that Japan was supposed to shove the U.S. economy into oblivion seems quite silly. What most Americans didn't understand is that U.S. economic success didn't depend on making TV sets; it was based on the technological innovation at which Americans excel. Beginning in the early 1990s, the U.S. experienced one of its most sustained economic booms ever in part...
...lesson Syesha’s taught me is easier to grasp after a little primer from Top Model. The current finalists—Anya, Fatima, and Whitney—do not include the best photographic model (Lauren, placed sixth), the charismatic fan favorite (Claire, placed eighth), or the girl who arguably looked most like a model in person (Katarzyna, placed fifth...
...doesn’t get you a job if you haven’t networked, and social charm won’t get you ahead if you have no organizational experience. This is the lesson we will learn the hard way once we’ve left Harvard to better serve our country and our kind: We shouldn’t be Brookes or Laurens; we should be Syeshas...
...jokes. And polls show that the Republican's age - he will be 72 by Election Day - could have an impact at the ballot box. But both McCain and his advisers have been pointing to a prospect they hope will neutralize the issue: a relatively youthful vice president, who might lesson the fear of, gulp, McCain's death in office. "I'm aware of enhanced importance of this issue given my age," McCain told Don Imus recently, when asked about his vice presidential pick. A few weeks later, campaign adviser Charlie Black elaborated on the assumed power of a solid vice...