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...competition from Chinese manufacturers is snatching away Manzano's customers--and its life. Over the past three years, about 200 Manzano companies have closed, and a worrisome number of the remaining 900 are struggling. The cheap labor isn't just in China. Sawmills have moved to Croatia, Poland and Romania, where an increasing amount of prefabrication is carried...
...Serbian government, the Tuzla air base commander, and even Carla Del Ponte, who called for an urgent press conference on Wednesday to state that Mladic is still at large. Even on Friday, some Belgrade newspapers claimed, quoting unidentified security officials, that Mladic was arrested by British special forces in Romania and placed in confinement at a secret location...
...retired scientist named Mr. Shi goes to the U.S. to visit his newly divorced adult daughter and discovers, as he hears her speaking to a man in English over the phone, that she has become someone else. (When he finds out his daughter's new boyfriend is from Romania, Mr. Shi tries to stay positive: "At least the man grew up in a communist country.") In their reborn American selves, father and daughter achieve a level of honesty, however painful, that was impossible in China. "If you grew up in a language that you never used to express your feelings...
Perhaps you’re the first of your clan to matriculate here. Great! So, you can think of your great-great grandfather, back in the old country—be it Ireland, Romania, Pakistan, or Polynesia. Would he have ever guessed that his progeny would one day grace the Yard? Did he even know what the Yard was? Think of your grandmother—have you brought her unique mannerisms and quirks to Harvard? Think of your uncle—will he one day be able to say that his niece was in junior tutorial with a future...
...Tobago, and the rest of the family kept the domestic Indian business. Since then, Mittal has left the other side of the family behind. Over the past five years he has made about 20 acquisitions, buying up a network of steel producers in former communist countries including Kazakhstan, Romania and Ukraine, and pushing into the U.S. in 2004 with the $4.5 billion purchase of International Steel Group. His empire now has more than 175,000 employees and spans the globe. Last year, he set up shop in India for the first time, agreeing to build a new factory...