Word: rebirth
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Acting as midwife to China's difficult economic rebirth can be financially dangerous. The country's legal and management landscape is murky. Disputes between Chinese managers and their Western backers are commonplace, while graft and corruption are rampant. But for these leaders, the art of the Chinese deal is about building a modern, civilized society. "Foreign investors who bring money and technology to private domestic firms are doing exactly the right thing," says Yasheng Huang, author of Selling China: Foreign Direct Investment in the Reform Era. "If you can structure your investment so that you take advantage of China...
...name fool you: The Phoenix Landing is about as Irish a pub as they come. The owners named the establishment for the mythical bird that rises from its ashes in blazing glory — a common symbol for Ireland’s rebirth after the Anglo-Irish War. The interior of the Landing is bathed in a warm red and features authentic wooden walls. The Galway-born bartender, Niamh (rhymes with ‘Bev’—no joke), told of the St. Paddy’s Day festivities: an honest-to-goodness bagpipe...
Without a doubt, Rebirth of a Nation electrified the Sanders audience on Friday. What’s less clear is whether the lightning bolt came from Miller’s clever remix—or from the raw emotional power of Griffith’s original...
Miller seeks to forge a new national identity that moves beyond race. But his flag montage seems to deconstruct—and discard—the very notion of nationhood. At once, Miller proposes a rebirth of America, while at the same time, he suggests that national categories such as “America” are hopelessly artificial...
Miller’s Rebirth opens with the artist flashing national insignias at a speed of 10 images per second—until the Jamaican banner becomes indistinguishable from the Confederate flag. Meanwhile, Miller plays Jimi Hendrix’s Woodstock version of the “Star Spangled Banner,” which devolves the anthem into unrecognizable scratches of sound. Miller describes the montage as “a metaphor for what would happen if all these flags didn’t mean so much...