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...TIME: The summit is a coming-out party for China. The Chinese leadership use the phrase "peaceful rise." Does that strike you as about right, or are you nervous? LEE: My first reaction was to tell one of their think tanks, "It's a contradiction in terms; any rise is something that is startling." And they said, "What would you say?" I replied: "Peaceful renaissance, or evolution, or development." A recovery of ancient glory, an updating of a once great civilization. But it's already done. Now the Chinese have to construe it as best they...
European retailers are always nervous before Christmas, their most important season, but this year they're more jittery than usual. That's because it's so hard to read the economic tea leaves: in Continental Europe, growth looks to be picking up, but consumer spending remains sluggish in Germany and elsewhere. And in the U.K., consumption has slowed as the housing boom tails off. But the news isn't all bad. Investment bankers and fund managers, already highly paid, are expecting record year-end bonuses thanks to vibrant stock markets and a wave of mergers and acquisitions. Headhunters Russell Reynolds...
RUNAWAY ALICE MUNRO A young woman on a train is approached by a nervous stranger. She blows him off. Not long after, his body is found on the tracks. Life is made up of such miniature tragedies, and so are Munro's powerful and perfect short stories, which focus on restless women who know more about what they're running from than where they're going...
...Remember that it’s okay to be nervous in these types of situations: if you actually like this girl, it’s only natural to be a bit jittery. But here’s something to give you a boost of confidence—if she has actually agreed to go out with you on a number of occasions, she’s most likely into you. So at this point, you really should just go for it. What do you have to lose...
...America’s first president called The Papers of George Washington. Glendon expressed her reservations about receiving the award in the presence of a less famous albeit equally intimidating figure who attended the ceremony. “I must confess that most of us medalists were a little nervous about the prospect of participating in a formal state occasion under the watchful eye of our fellow honoree Judith Martin (Miss Manners)!” wrote Glendon. Martin, or Miss Manners as she is known in her syndicated Washington Post column, is considered a foremost authority on etiquette and politeness...