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...everything from throwing food at your friends to playing chess with them,” said Charlene H. Li ’88, principal analyst at Forrester Research, Inc. “Within the college environment, like at Harvard, it’s very easy to be able to translate the things that you do and take them online into Facebook...
...Friday, Mattel's executive vice president for worldwide operations, Thomas Debrowski, met with the Chinese product safety chief Li Changjiang, to apologize for the company's own weak safety controls. "Our reputation has been damaged lately by these recalls," Mr. Debrowski told Li. "And Mattel takes full responsibility for these recalls and apologizes personally to you, the Chinese people, and all of our customers who received the toys...
...many ordinary Chinese, the Games mark the ability of their nation to shrug off two centuries of humiliation by foreigners. "In the 19th century, China used to be called the sick man of Asia," says Li Weiling, 51, a checkout clerk at a Beijing supermarket. "The Olympics will totally change that. Hundreds of thousands of athletes, reporters and visitors will see China with their own eyes and realize China is not a backward country anymore." Among China's dissidents and democrats, meanwhile, there has been hope that the attention paid to their nation as the Games approach would lead...
...that power, ironically, will be exported to countries like Thailand, where hydroelectric projects are controversial and have been blocked by ecologically minded citizens. Huaneng doesn't have to worry about public interference. The state-owned company is run by the well-connected son of China's former Premier, Li Peng. And with no shareholders calling for environmental-impact surveys or feasibility studies, Huaneng rarely makes public details of its plans until just months before it breaks ground. (The company declined requests for an interview...
...fund will not simply project Asian products on Western screens, it will bring to Asian films what Weinstein calls a "Western sensibility." So far the slate includes a live-action film of the fable Mulan; a martial arts team-up of Jackie Chan and Jet Li; and a remake of the 1954 classic, The Seven Samurai, which transplants Kurosawa's besieged Japanese village to the outskirts of Bangkok and recasts the Japanese fighters as mercenary soldiers, three of whom speak English...