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Not Business As Usual German business has always had a spotless reputation for moral probity. Lately, however, a succession of corruption scandals has dented the country's corporate self-image. In June and July, fraud and bribery charges were leveled against top executives at carmaker Volkswagen and at Infineon, Europe...
India has its eyes firmly fixed on the future. Everywhere there is a profound hope that its rising international status will somehow compensate for a past often perceived as one long succession of invasions and defeats by foreign powers. Perhaps there is also a cultural factor in this striking neglect...
The 1986 People Power revolt that ousted Ferdinand Marcos was different. Clustered around Manila's main artery EDSA, it was heroic, miraculous and magical, dismantling an entrenched dictatorship and restoring democracy. The January 2001 EDSA Dos that led to the fall of Joseph Estrada was a poor photocopy; it forced...
For her part, Barbara Johnson maintains that those provisions fully reflected Johnson Sr.'s oft-expressed intentions. She notes that in 1944 he established trust funds for his children that, if left untouched, would be valued at $110 million each. Despite nibbling at the principal, even the poorest of the...
Hailed at 17 as the "Chinese Elizabeth Taylor," she was the most popular actress in the People's Republic and the winner of the Oscar-like Hundred Flower award. Two years later, Joan Chen left her homeland ostensibly to study English literature at UCLA. But she stayed, married a Chinese...