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...While it ended this impasse, the delicate agreement won't bring permanent calm to the volatile relationship between the world's most powerful nation and its most populous one. Indeed, the whole incident has given potent ammunition to those on both sides who prefer hard-edged confrontation to hard-argued cooperation. But being a superpower means knowing when, and exactly how, to say you're sorry?and when to say you're very sorry...
...poor, young girl in Angeles, there is little to trade on except her body. Northern European men prefer the darker-skinned Amerasians, while the Japanese go for lighter skin. Jewel, 18, plies the streets in front of Splash, Lollipop and Confetti's, where drunken men amble with a girl in one hand and a San Miguel beer in the other. She's never met her American father, but her mother says he had a scar on his left calf. So every time Jewel meets a middle-aged American, she checks his leg, just in case. "I don't know what...
...would strongly prefer a national test of aptitude for which it is not quite so easy to prepare. Because the SAT allows wealthy students to buy their way to the top, it acts as a barrier to social mobility. When some students can afford expensive SAT tutors or lenient doctors but others cannot, disparities in wealth are carried over into the scores, which then become an inaccurate representation of the students’ true abilities...
Here's to the NFL's expansion Houston Texans, whose name is simple and classy (albeit incredibly unoriginal). Here's to other team names that appeal those who prefer pinstripes, blues or grays to teal-the Cowboys, the Bears and-it hurts to say it-the Yankees and Bulls...
...markets made the timing exquisite. Central bankers and Treasury men hate making their moves against the inertial wind - it wastes juice to try turning the markets around - and whether or not Greenspan was actually market-timing (he'd prefer that you think not), he certainly got the most bang for his buck. With an earnings-based rally already on, the index charts all grew a near-vertical line at 10:50 a.m. when the news hit. Three hours later, the party was still going - the Dow was up over 400 points and the NASDAQ nearly 200, and traders were suddenly...