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...founded his company, now a huge conglomerate, in the early 1990s, with three friends from Shanghai's Fudan University. Today, like so many successful Chinese businessmen of his generation, he seems preternaturally calm when talking about why he believes the future is going to look a lot like the present: new houses go up, new houses get bought, more new houses...
...oppression, regardless of the prevailing tax policy. If Osama bin Laden supported lower tax rates than any U.S. presidential candidate, would you be willing to endorse him? Anything for a headline, right? (If so, I would encourage you to reconsider your enthusiastic defense of torture, considering that at present, such conspicuous sympathy with terrorists oftentimes leads to some less-than-friendly interrogation...
After about 30 video loops, or 90 minutes, I was called to a window to present my forms, and told that my replacement visa would be ready the next...
...nonprofit Clean Air Task Force and the Bipartisan Policy Center—has a unique focus. The Harvard grant aims to speed up the development of clean-energy technologies, according to the Foundation’s press release. The Kennedy School group will study the efficacy of past and present U.S. policies intended to encourage clean-energy research, as well as the role government and business in Europe, China, Japan, and India play in the development of energy technology. Andrew Bowman, director of the Climate Change Initiative at the Duke Foundation, expressed confidence in the potential of the grant...
...makes for an unglamorous job–do you know anyone applying for a summer position in that division? Rather than making spectacular deals, risk managers keep track of all transactions, and make sure banks’ bets remain hedged and balanced. The possibility of loss is ever present, yet they minimize the odds of catastrophe. Clearly no romance there...