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...dilemma both for Beijing and for businesses that traditionally prize political stability. Fifteen years in the making, China's WTO push constitutes just an epic prologue to great social and economic transformations to come. Observers uniformly call it a revolution from above. But unless successors to Jiang and Premier Zhu Rongji can deftly manage the upheaval, there will be fireworks of a much different kind--a revolution from below...
...exporter of world-class talent, France now outshines Brazil and Argentina, which have traditionally dominated the trade. Football's French Foreign Legion has more than 100 professional players, over 40 of them in the English Premier League alone. And lest you think the high volume is a result of low value, consider this: 11 of the 50 candidates shortlisted for last year's European Player of the Year honors were French, as were five of the 11 footballers on uefa's 2001 European all-star team. Once the perennial underachiever of world football, France has capitalized on the bountiful flowering...
...thwarted last year by Liverpool, under the coaching of another Frenchman, Gérard Houllier. An architect of the French national training system, Houllier revamped and restructured a rusty Liverpool organization to win a rash of national and international titles last year. This year, the English Premier League got its third French manager: Jean Tigana, of the London club Fulham...
That view changed dramatically last week when Edmund Stoiber, the premier of Bavaria and the CSU's chairman, announced he was a candidate to oppose Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in national elections this September. Within five days, Stoiber's main opponent for the job, CDU chairwoman Angela Merkel, announced she was dropping out of the race, leaving it to Stoiber to carry the conservative banner...
...looming over the campaign is the experience of Franz Josef Strauss, the former premier of Bavaria who ran on the nationwide ticket in 1980. Like Stoiber, Strauss campaigned on his conservative record in Bavaria, but ended up alienating the northern part of the country and suffered a humiliating loss to the Social Democratic candidate, Helmut Schmidt...