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...easy to see the Baidu story as so many in China now do: Chinese upstart whips the American Goliath. But it's more complicated than that, as Li is the first to admit. The fact is, Baidu's success resembles a typically American success story. Li was born in an impoverished town about 200 miles (320 km) from Beijing, and as a young man was smart enough to get into Beida, as the Chinese call Peking University. Like so many students of that era - just after the government's assault on demonstrators in Tiananmen Square - he wanted...
Hill and West had similar success in the beginning of the weekend, defeating Penn’s Danny Greenberg and Mark Froot respectively. This time, though, Harvard’s top two players were not the only ones with success...
...women’s success was mirrored by their Nordic counterparts, who had three top-25 finishers in the 5k classic...
...sophistication of Obama's politics has finally caught up to the opposition: he will offer them compromise and lacerate them when they refuse to play. I suspect he'll be successful at this. But absent a responsible opposition party, we'll still be left with a crippled democracy, lacking all ability to address our most serious problems. That is not a recipe for continued success in a competitive world...
Perhaps it's just good entertainment. Another secret to Lost's success in the Islamic Republic is that it's family-friendly. Unlike in the U.S., the television in Iran tends to be in its own room, away from the dinner table. Families generally sit together to watch shows - veritable home cinemas. (Iranians are notorious film buffs, their love affair with movies stretching back to the birth of cinema itself. The first films were brought to Iran in 1900 by the monarch Mozaffar al-Din Shah, just five years after the Lumière brothers premiered their light machine...