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With Congress closely divided, everyone in Washington wants to be wooed as the key to legislative victories. By shifting alliances and presenting an aura of unpredictability, Hoffa has transformed the oft-troubled union into a premier political force. In the coming weeks, the White House needs his help to convert the five to eight Senators required to start drilling in Alaska. Democrats are counting on the Teamsters to fight the Administration's plans to let Mexican trucks operate in the U.S. and Bush's push for trade-negotiating authority. "They are not a lock for us, and that is their...
...Kong's basic problems are well known. It is too expensive, in terms of both wages and real estate, and its government is too big. University graduates have poor skills not only in English but in Chinese, too. Corporations are hiring in the mainland, and firing in Hong Kong. Premier Zhu Rongji, a former Shanghai mayor, allowed the mainland property bubble to burst in the mid-'90s without intervention. Now, Shanghai and other Chinese cities are bursting with new businesses in part because both wages and asset prices are but a fraction of Hong Kong...
...Embarrassed by its appalling safety record, China's Cabinet finally took action in mid-June, ordering all small state-owned mines to halt production for safety checks and calling for intensified raids against illegal mines, such as the one in Guizhou province that claimed Zhang's husband. Last week, Premier Zhu Rongji visited that desperately poor province to tout the program's success and report that 5,117 small coal mines have been forced to close this year...
...starring Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng; it grossed a robust $5 million. Soon after, he opened the gun drama Fulltime Killer, with Lau as a preening, delirious assassin; so far, the film has taken in $3 million. With his creative partner, Wai Ka-fai, To runs Hong Kong's premier indie production company, Milkyway Image. And for two years he was COO of the film division of Charles Heung's China Star Entertainment. He resigned last month to?what else??make more movies. He's already at work on another crime film, P.T.U., starring Simon Yam as a member...
...President ordered the Kursk raised. But the President is not professional in this field. He has to trust his advisers. But neither (Deputy Premier Ilya) Klebanov, or (Russian Navy's C-in-C Vladimir) Kuroyedov are professionals in this field either...