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...them. Half of the country's massive national savings of $2 trillion is in corporate coffers. "These [Chinese] companies know this slump, while deep, will not last forever," says Xu Minle, a Shanghai-based analyst at BOC International. "China is now making strategic investments overseas at a comparatively lower cost...
...Considering how far mineral prices have fallen, some analysts believe Chinalco might actually be paying a premium for Rio Tinto assets. But BOC International's Xu says "the price is much, much lower for the assets - particularly iron ore and copper - than it would have been just six months ago. This seems like a pretty good deal." As long as commodity prices are depressed, Chinese companies - having learned the pitfalls of "Going Out" - are likely to be ravenous buyers...
...many different criteria proposed by experts that they often contradict each other in the end. So go with your gut. Pick teams you root for to win, within reason, while predicting teams you don’t like to lose earlier than expected. (Duke has lost to a lower seed every year since 2004 hahaha). Most importantly, be pumped. This is sports utopia...
...consciousness. But the art that I’m writing here about is more than just performance, it is performative. I’m writing about the art that transformed Bogota, Colombia from a capital of corruption and crime into a city with crime and murder rates lower than neighboring South American metropolises. I’m writing about “Cultural Agency.”Cultural agency is the philosophy, most notably espoused by Harvard Professor Doris Sommer, that every person has the power to change the culture in which he lives. It is embodied in Bogota?...
...Such students do not want to work in a field where in-house opportunities for career advancement are so uncertain. No matter how passionately we feel about public service, dismal-looking advancement opportunities packaged with lower salaries and a lack of immediate prestige make this field a difficult choice. No number of info sessions by OCS or heartfelt appeals from the commencement dais will change this...