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...protagonist's parents give him away when he's 6 to a burly army officer and his sickly wife who can't have kids and need help around the house with chores. (Why his parents are so willing to get rid of him is never entirely clear.) In adolescence, Guanglin makes it to college in Beijing, but through no help of his original family members, to whom he returns when his adoptive father kills himself. Things only get worse, and the lachrymose novel quickly becomes a caustic indictment of Confucian familial ideals, an exposé of the "deadness of family...
...Retailers love to blame the weather for their woes, but it's true that this fall's record-breaking warm temperatures have led to sluggish fall and winter clothing sales. They have been so slow, in fact, that many retailers have already started their holiday price-cutting to get rid of the excess sweaters and coats. Due to tepid results the last two Christmas seasons, Wal-mart is determined to get a jump on sales. They reduced prices on toys in September and then slashed them again on 15,000 additional items in October, a 20% increase over last year...
...issue: Obama's proposal to increase the taxes that wealthier Americans pay into the system. Currently, workers are taxed on only the first $97,500 of what they earn, a limit that will rise to $102,000 next year. Getting rid of the income cap, he says, would be enough to "virtually eliminate" the funding shortfall and guarantee the solvency of the system without cutting benefits. John Edwards would also increase the taxes but only on income over $200,000. And Clinton--well, she refuses to be pinned down on what, if anything, she would do with Social Security. Instead...
...billionaire William Fung, that moment has arrived, and with it comes his own special predicament. In 1972, as a brash 23-year-old fresh out of Harvard Business School, he reluctantly joined Li & Fung, a trading company co-founded by his grandfather. William's first move was "to get rid of the family deadwood," he says, by taking the company public. His son Terence, 25, recently joined the business, and William, a drafter of Hong Kong's mini-constitution who is famous for having a judicious opinion about everything, isn't sure how to play this one. "This...
...Iqbal, spokesman for the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz party, which is led from exile by Bhutto's longtime foe, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. "There can now be a common agenda. With complete unanimity of goals, there is no reason why we can't all come together to get rid of Musharraf...