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...Part of the difficulty for China's central-bank chief, Zhou Xiaochuan, is that the country lacks reliable statistics on which to base economic projections and policies. "They're driving at night without good headlights," says Stephen Green, Shanghai-based economist with Standard Chartered. Another problem is that monetary and fiscal policies are intimately tied up with politics. For example, Chinese President Hu Jintao's centerpiece program of building a "harmonious society" by raising wages and improving state services such as health care for poorer workers plays well with the masses, but may undermine efforts to contain inflation...
...while the twins' style has bruised it. Their insistence on defending Polish interests with no apparent regard for a broader European vision has frustrated negotiating partners, most notably in ongoing talks over the shape of a new European constitution. "They don't know the rules of the game," says Stephen Bastos, an analyst with the German Council on Foreign Relations. "They don't have a vision of the kind of Europe they want to promote." The twins' combativeness has also left Polish society deeply polarized. Lech Walesa, the Solidarity leader, Nobel laureate and former Polish President, argues that the Kaczynskis...
...young Justice Department lawyers in the early days of Ronald Reagan, Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito played on the same volleyball team, and both men were quickly marked for big things and nurtured for the bench. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's cocoon was the American Civil Liberties Union. Stephen Breyer's inculcation came on Senator Edward Kennedy's Judiciary Committee staff...
...shared intellectual experience, which adds to the learning and also the fun.2.FM: Do you think that making your class available to students through the Extension School has the effect of devaluing it? Part of Harvard’s draw is the privilege to study with Skip Gates and Stephen Greenblatt and Michael Sandel—by offering the experience to anyone who signs up, students might feel slightly duped, despite it having no direct effect on them?MJS: I don’t think you should worry that giving others access to distance learning will somehow dilute or devalue...
...political purposes and insult thousands of supporters who have paid their hard-earned cash to watch what should be a contest between the best players available? That would give the impression that in the "new South Africa" a new bigoted, stubborn political élite has replaced the old one. Stephen J. Lewis, HENFIELD, ENGLAND...