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...direct flights from interior Chinese cities to cities in North America. So start playing that forward. You're allowing a class of people in China to layer on a new identity to their existing identity of Chinese businessmen as member of some kind of international business élite...
SHIRKY: That may be true. But the "cloud dwellers" now are far and away the majority of the country. It's not some privileged élite who have access to things like JetBlue flights and the Internet. It's the bulk of America...
...China's entrepreneurial élite, the new civility push is also a business opportunity. Private etiquette schools are proliferating to meet demand from yuppies who crave guidance on eating, dressing and working in an international environment. At Shanghai's June Yamada Academy, students pay $900 for a multiweek course during which they dine at a five-star hotel and learn the difference between a fish knife and a butter knife. Meanwhile, at a Shanghai etiquette workshop for HR managers, instructor Liu Wei plucks a man out of the crowd and castigates him for his multihued pink...
...Brother is something that's élite. At one time you had to be a certain color. Now, it's not the color; it's you gotta do this, you gotta know this, you gotta get a letter from this. And I'm doing all of this for what? To be accepted? Rule No. 2 in my book says, "Do You." But I can't Do Me if the only way to get in your organization is to Do You. I will show you kids who might not be statistically qualified but are now running $2.6 billion businesses and took...
...Second Storm Hurricanes Rita and Katrina will change how the Federal Government handles disasters [Oct. 3]. Let's hope the Bush Administration does not use this crisis the way it used 9/11?as an excuse to consolidate even more power in the hands of the right-wing corporate ? lite. We must reverse the trend of allowing corporations to set our national policy. Allen L. Wenger Mountain Home, Idaho...