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...stimulus will last far longer because it marks the shift of China's economy away from manufacturing and exports to other means of growth. Says Ben Simpfendorfer, a China economist with the Royal Bank of Scotland in Hong Kong: "In a decade we'll be looking back at this moment and saying, 'This was it, this was when things really changed.'" The number doesn...
...Obama has captivated the American nation and my own heart. On the day he was elected, for just a moment, I wished I lived in a country where I could proudly proclaim that he was my President. As the world watches his every move, I just hope Obama remembers one thing: Yes, he can. Anna Conneely, Sydney...
...Campaign '08: Memories... My own "moment to remember" of the 2008 campaign is illustrated by one of your voices, Laura Ingraham: the Republicans' utter lack of vision [Nov. 10]. From McCain down to state assembly candidates, the overwhelming majority of ads never carried the remotest hint of what the Republicans would do if elected. Instead, they produced laundry lists of reasons why not to vote for the opposition. Republican mouthpieces complain that their candidates don't get positive coverage in the "mainstream" media. If you have no message, you probably won't get much coverage. Dennis Sheehan, Waupaca, Wisconsin...
From that suspended moment--with the smell of revelation in the air but the actual article nowhere to be found, as if the author had accidentally left it in his other coat--2666 tacks sideways into the mind of a philosophy professor who teaches in Santa Teresa and may slowly be going insane, and then again into another genre entirely, a hard-boiled yarn about a journalist sent to Santa Teresa from New York City to cover a boxing match. It becomes clear only in the book's fourth section that Bolaņo is performing these lateral leaps the better...
...Chen's arrest comes at a sensitive political moment in Taiwan. A top Chinese envoy came to Taiwan last week to sign landmark trade pacts, a historic visit that was marred by violent protests from opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) supporters who are wary of any moves to draw closer to China. Over a hundred people were injured in five days of chaos...