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...Hummer," says Liu Chang of Sinomind Management Consulting in Beijing. "GM wouldn't sell it if it was in better shape." But China's previous results from acquisitions of foreign automakers have been poor. In 2004, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. paid $500 million for a 49% stake in South Korea's Ssangyong Motors, which declared bankruptcy in January...
...lash of the whip as slaves and the humiliation of segregation. But it was not violence that won full and equal rights. It was a peaceful and determined insistence upon the ideals at the center of America's founding. This same story can be told by people from South Africa to South Asia; from Eastern Europe to Indonesia. It's a story with a simple truth: that violence is a dead end. It is a sign of neither courage nor power to shoot rockets at sleeping children, or to blow up old women on a bus. That...
...everything from basic research and scholarship to challenging and important applications that engage our professional schools. The issues presented by global health, energy, and the environment also cross the boundaries of the natural sciences, engineering, the social sciences, and the humanities. For example, the dissemination of antiretroviral drugs in South Africa has, until recently, been inhibited by benighted leadership that denied the role of HIV in causing AIDS; similarly, the World Health Organization’s attempts to eradicate polio have run into ethnic and religious barriers in northern Nigeria and parts of India. Thus biological discovery and technology development...
...reflected on our own priorities. I listened, as a professor affiliated with two departments that have scant resources to start with and are constantly pleading for augmentation. For years, the tiny Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies has been trying to get the study of South Asia on the intellectual map of FAS and is working, even now, to create a broader program in South Asian languages, cultures, and histories. India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Tibet—all are ever more important to understanding the world in which we live. And for many years, the Study...
...About 43 miles (70 km) further is Plettenberg Bay, possibly the most beautiful town on the Garden Route. One of the local attractions allows you to combine the two great South African loves of wild game and strong, sweet drink. Take the R340 turnoff, follow the signs for Buffalo Hills in Wittedrift, and head to the Nyati JJJ Distillery, tel: (27-44) 535 9739, which is both a distillery and a game reserve. Embark on a safari, then sample the potent and award-winning mampoer (a citrus-fruit liqueur) and witblits (a powerful brandy...