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Nevertheless, it's easy for someone like Potysman to get lost in the gridiron shuffle. In a world of walking skyscrapers, Steve plays the part of the condominium. He stands only 5-ft. 10-in. tall and jiggles the scales at 165 lbs.
The real business of Asia is now unmistakably business. Every country seems to be chasing after the Japanese economic miracle. Everybody is talking about growth rate, per capita income, foreign investment, development loans. Office skyscrapers and luxury hotels are blooming in Seoul, Manila, Jakarta and Singapore. Hong Kong is wall...
Boston's new central business district makes sense only in light of the fact that every city must play the role of an entrepreneur, exploiting its comparative economic advantages to insure its economic survival. Replacing slums (usually with skyscrapers) and attracting badly needed tax revenues to the city are the...
Like Paris in the Belle Epoque or Berlin in the '20s, Shanghai in the '30s was not only a city but a state of mind. When Chiang Ch'ing arrived in 1933, it was an Oriental boom town that neither Japanese aggression nor worldwide Depression could seriously...
The last comment would not always have seemed snide. Fifteen years ago, the criticism in the following passage from The Quiet American, a novel many people feel prefigures the whole of the U.S.'s senseless devastation of Vietnam, would not have seemed painful. A Vietnamese woman named Phuong asks the...