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...multimillonario Arturo (Arte) Moreno, un m?jicoamericano de cuarta generaci?n, no s?lo es el primer due?o de un equipo de deporte en EE.UU. sino que tambi?n est? cambiando las reglas del juego. Despu?s de comprarle los Anaheim Angels a Disney hace dos a?os, Moreno baj? el precio de los boletos y de las concesiones. Pero no escatim? en el campo de juego. Moreno contrat? al mejor agente libre en el mercado, el jardinero derecho Vladimir Guerrero, por $70 millones. Como resultado, los Angelinos llegaron a las finales en el 2004 y lograron una audiencia de 3.4 millones de espectadores...
...second anti-Japanese student protest in two months. In both cases, the ostensible purpose was to refresh Chinese memories of Japan's harsh military presence in China from 1931 to 1945. The events were also timed to coincide with two Sino-Japanese competitions in volleyball and an Oriental game called go. But the dissident students gave their protest an additional twist by dubbing the rally Democracy '85. In a manifesto circulated before the demonstration, organizers declared that "it will be impossible to realize our personal ambitions and careers without a conducive democratic atmosphere." University authorities responded with a series...
That is why the most important figure for China's future and in many ways for the Sino-U.S. relationship is not Hu--nor Rice, Rumsfeld or any other U.S. leader. It is someone like Liu. If her life continues to get better, the extraordinary challenges facing China's leadership will be ameliorated. The best news possible for high policymakers in Washington is that a 20-year-old girl in Kaiping is happy. Between bonuses and overtime, Liu makes as much as $120 a month, nearly twice what she says she would have made if she had stayed closer...
...transition, serving as chairman of the Asia Society and chairman of the U.S.-China Business Council, and creating and chairing the International Business Leaders' Advisory Council in Shanghai. The Chinese remain so enamored of Greenberg that this year they honored him with their prestigious Marco Polo Prize for promoting Sino-American relations. "Hank Greenberg is perhaps the best known and most admired American businessman at both top government and top business levels in [India and China]," says Peter G. Peterson, who was an economic adviser to Richard Nixon and has known Greenberg for years...
...frozen again after Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi snubbed Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi by canceling their meeting at the last minute; China later noted that Koizumi's recent comments on visiting the Yasukuni Shrine to honor Japan's war dead made "it unfavorable to the healthy development of Sino-Japanese relations." Here's how a single shrine continues to keep Asia's two powerhouses at odds...