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...books so he'd be eligible to win the big game. Her only severe competition came not from the script but on the screen. Her sweetness might get upstaged by a flashier femme, as she was by Joan McCracken in Good News. Sometimes Allyson lost to a rival from deepest movie memory. In Little Women she played Jo Marsh, the role a much nervier young thing from Broadway, Katharine Hepburn, had taken in the 1933 version...
ELECTED. Felipe Calder?n, 43, conservative, Harvard-educated lawyer and member of the ruling National Action Party, as President of Mexico; beating leftist rival Andr?s Manuel L?pez Obrador by less than one percentage point; in Mexico City. L?pez Obrador, the Mexico City Mayor, has refused to accept the results of the hotly contested poll and vowed to challenge the vote in court, a move that could plunge the nation into an electoral crisis similar to the disputed U.S. elections...
...French President Jacques Chirac regularly advocates a "multipolar" world (and compared to many other G-8 leaders, has been markedly uncritical of Putin's record). But the intriguing thing about Putin's policy has been the way in which he has aligned Russian interests with those of another natural rival to the U.S., China. Putin and China's President Hu Jintao meet frequently - five times in the last year alone. They've reached agreement on how to draw their countries' long-contested border and conducted large-scale joint military exercises. Two-way trade, which reached $29.1 billion last year...
...Adding PCCW to this expanding portfolio may prove trickier. The news that Macquarie was negotiating with PCCW chairman Richard Li, son of Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, for his telecom business (which includes a mobile-phone operation and a promising Internet-TV venture) immediately drew a rival bid from private-equity firm Texas Pacific Group and its Asian affiliate, Newbridge Capital Group. Not only does Macquarie have a rival suitor, but the Chinese government may also fatally complicate the deal. That's because China Network Communications Group, one of China's state-owned telephone companies, has a 20% stake...
...metropolises of Shanghai and Hong Kong, is hardly austere. Ladies in posh dresses and heels browse marbled department stores. McDonald’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken are expensive eats here, serving meals that might cost up to three or four U.S. dollars. And the prices for luxury items rival those of American stores. But for all its commercialism, it’s hard to believe that the minimum wage is in Luoyang is about 300 yuan per month, equivalent to about $37. It’s especially difficult to imagine what this means while volunteering at the Luoyang Welfare...