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...will not be pretty: "As order dissolves across China, workers will take over factories, and towns will run themselves as little baronies. The People's Republic may not so much collapse as split apart and then dissolve...
Nightlife, like military service, was segregated back then. One area in Koza was designated for blacks and another for whites. Today, while the party spots are still split by race--whites head toward bars, blacks congregate in hip-hop clubs--it's a mixed bunch that piles into the "loser cruisers," military-run buses for the poor sods stationed on remote camps that take them to bars on base like the Globe & Anchor. But the guys playing arcade games and pool are white; the ones on the dance floor are black...
...have been the Standard's large controlled circulation--copies given free to the industry. In any case, there had long been tension between the corporate cultures of IDG (East Coast, infotech oriented ) and the Standard (West Coast, business oriented). At some point, there was bound to be a nasty split...
...disgust, and disillusionment of the last eleven months has come the increasingly tempting idea of "unilateral separation." What does that mean, exactly? Not quite clear. As former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak explains it, "We'll be here and they'll be there." In between, a presumably impenetrable barrier. Split the house into two units, with iron doors locked and bolted between them, and razor wire on the windows. The cobra has one condominium, the mongoose gets the other. It's not a happy way to live, but it would be better, for both sides, than today's vicious intimacy...
...other younger leaders to broker a compromise, the planned protests ultimately spooked the Grammy organizers into baling out. The decision, which cost Miami's tourist industry some $35 million in lost revenues, was the worst possible outcome for the CANF. Not only had the imbroglio forced a damaging political split in the organization, the ultimate decision to withdraw the event had communicated exactly the type of message Mas Santos had been at pains to avoid...