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There is something creepy about cruising the darkening streets of Beijing sunk in the velvet upholstery of Madame Mao's 1970s Red Flag limousine. My feet propped up on the jump seat?just as Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong's third wife, liked to sit on her own tours of the capital?I sip champagne, nibble caviar and nod as my 20-year-old tour guide, Maggie, recounts tales of China's glorious communist past. As we pass Tiananmen Square and its floodlit portrait of Chairman Mao, I've suddenly had enough. Unable to take more of Maggie's garbled history...
...Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC). His challenge: to impose order on a stock market that a leading Chinese economist once described as worse than a casino (because "at least casinos have rules"). Shang arrives at a precarious juncture. Even as China's GDP has grown 8% annually, its market has sunk more than 40% since its June 2001 peak. Stock-rigging scandals and lax corporate disclosure have sapped investors' confidence, and Shang must restore their faith. To do so, he will have to fend off government officials who see the market as a vehicle to funnel investors' cash into profitless state...
...Crimson’s offensive output took a nosedive in the second frame, as Harvard posted 11 fewer points and sunk only eight of its 30 shots...
Harvard’s offensive output took a nosedive in the second frame, as the Crimson posted 11 fewer points and sunk only eight of 30 attempted shots...
...course, there has to be some HD to watch. Before you can see, say, The West Wing in HDTV, NBC has to create an HD version of it. That means a significant investment in digital cameras and cables--a tough sell to a business with billions of dollars sunk in the old way of making TV. Then either your cable company has to carry the big HD version over its coaxial cables (taking up precious bandwidth that could otherwise carry more channels), or the local NBC affiliate has to broadcast it over...