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Lucchino stayed late to chat with Cosgriff, Walsh, Harvard captain Morgan Brown, and Elyse and Richard Cosgriff, Wes’s parents...
...This trend is likely to persist, in part because it isn't just wealth that's moving from West to East. Each time manufacturing and services are outsourced to Asia, knowledge, technology and skills are also transferred. Professor Richard Smalley, a Nobel-Prizewinning chemist at Rice University, estimated that by 2010, 90% of all Ph.Ds in physical science and engineering may be living in Asia. With economic prowess comes geopolitical power. For many countries, exports to China have replaced exports to the U.S. as engines of growth?one reason why a longtime U.S. ally like South Korea is cozying...
...Then, in a stunning historical turnaround, U.S. President Richard Nixon visited China, spurring what Arkush and Lee describe as a new period of "rediscovery and respect." By the beginning of China's reform period in 1978, America was once again viewed in a largely positive light by the average Chinese. "The U.S. represented the good life," says Joseph Cheng, head of the Contemporary China Research Project at City University of Hong Kong. "It also represented, in the eyes of university students, the peak of scientific and technological progress...
...American athletes head to China as part of a policy of "Ping-pong diplomacy." They pave the way for U.S. President Richard Nixon's historic visit to China. Seven years later, Washington normalizes relations with Beijing, and severs official diplomatic ties with Taiwan...
...moment for a shuffle could be approaching, says a former White House official who has worked with Rumsfeld. "There are people in the building who would like to see 'peace with honor,'" the official told TIME, dusting off a reference to the 1968 campaign theme that helped elect Richard Nixon. But a senior White House official insisted that Bush would not be pushed into removing the Pentagon boss. "No one has ever mentioned a timeline for his tenure," he said...