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...innovative in many capacities. “It lets me do a million things at once,” he says. “He’ll be creating a lot of stuff that other people will be watching and enjoying,” says Shawn Liu ’07, who co-authored two comic strips with Ravishankara and has known him since their high school days in Boulder, Colo. Ravishankara’s films thus far range from comedic shorts satirizing the YouTube phenomenon to a fiction film about robbers wearing fake mustaches. The artist says...
About 18 months ago, Liu Junling, an upwardly mobile single Chinese woman, had a conversation with her boss, the CEO of a large, politically connected real estate developer in Shanghai. For the previous five years, people in China's largest city had lived and breathed the property market-buying apartments, if they could afford to, flipping them for higher prices, and buying again. The government really wanted to cool off the speculation, the boss told her. Probably not a good time to buy. Then, almost as an afterthought, he added: It might be a good time to buy stocks instead...
...Liu's question-is there a bubble in China stocks?-is of global concern because of the knock-on effect a meltdown could have on markets worldwide. After soaring 130% last year, the Shanghai Composite Index suddenly buckled on Feb. 27, plunging 8.8% and giving investors in the rest of the world a sudden case of the Chinese flu. Since then, however, China stocks have resumed their near-vertical ascent, in recent weeks setting record highs almost daily. By some estimates, there is now more money in the Shanghai stock market than there is in bank savings accounts nationwide-this...
...Staff writer Elaine Liu can be reached at liu10@fas.harvard.edu...
According to Gary Liu ’06—who introduced Chou last night—committee members had to “physically restrain her from sabotaging her own candidacy...