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...what used to be an Italian grocery store called Cremaldi’s. The shop’s sign still says Cremaldi’s, which caused a bit of confusion for me at first, and apparently I am not alone. According to Paul Clark, the managing partner of the Putnam Ave. location, people still come from all over Massachusetts to look for Cremaldi’s famous pasta sauce. Luckily Petsi kept the sauce, and has managed to absorb a lot of the Cremaldi’s customer base, won over, no doubt, by the smiley staff and best...
While Joanna is enraptured by the lyricism of Ridley’s dancing, she expresses her frustration with her inability to be “there with him” as his pas de deux partner can be. This polarizing divide between performer and spectator is one with which any theatergoer is familiar...
...about rules, from treating foreign companies fairly to dropping tangled customs regulations. But the largest obstacle may be persuading U.S. legislators - mindful of the impact on the U.S. of the flood of cheap imports and outsourcing that followed China's WTO admission in 2001 - to extend normal trading partner status to Vietnam. Passage of permanent normal trade relations status, usually a WTO formality, failed this week in the House of Representatives as legislators struggled to muster the requisite two-thirds majority for fast-track passage. The move was resisted by lawmakers seeking to protect textile manufacturers in their home states...
...domestic economy. "It's a tougher deal than even China got," says Jonathan Pincus, a Hanoi-based economist for the United Nations Development Programme (). For example, next April, Vietnam must allow foreign banks to set up their own branch offices in the country, without requiring them to partner with domestic lenders as banks wanting to enter China have been obligated to do. Vietnamese law now protects its state-dominated insurers by banning foreign insurance companies from selling to individuals, but that will change under the WTO. The stakes are high: less than 5% of Vietnamese people now have bank accounts...
Harvard’s agreement with Medicine in Need inches the University closer toward at least two of the group’s recommendations: that universities forgo their royalties to bring about discounts in developing nations, and that they partner with third-party organizations to help with drug development and distribution...