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...five flagpoles that stand in front of the Star Ferry terminal at the tip of the Kowloon peninsula in Hong Kong have long been a popular meeting place. It was at this familiar spot 20 years ago that democracy advocates sold commemorative items to raise money for the victims of the June 4 crackdown at Beijing's Tiananmen Square. I bought one: a four-inch plastic replica of the Goddess of Democracy statue that had been erected at the square. For a 9-year-old trying to make sense of the world, that keepsake was a concrete link...
...news for foreign firms. It has, however, also meant an increasing reluctance to let U.S. companies call the shots in China. The most visible evidence of this was the denial in March of Coca-Cola's bid to buy juicemaker Huiyuan, but Bremmer says that's just the tip of the iceberg. "The ability of Western companies to do effective business in China over the next five years is going to be increasingly limited," he says...
...failed is a mystery to me.' ROBERT H. PHELPS, a former editor at the New York Times, who revealed in his memoir that the newspaper had ignored an early tip on the Watergate scandal...
...Watergate wasn't about a tip. It was about extensive reporting and getting information you can put in the paper.' BOB WOODWARD, the reporter who broke the Watergate story with fellow Washington Post scribe Carl Bernstein, saying Phelps' account "falls in the category of history, what...
...were socialist and thus, ideologically opposed to the United States, still admired the American economy and wanted to work here. She said that although being from Harvard often grabbed attention, it was the American connection that appealed to many Cubans. “Being American was the big tip off… being from Harvard was just icing to the cake,” she said. A LASTING IMPACTWillard Emery, Jr. ’59 recalled similar stories of Cuban excitement over American presence. “They loved Americans, they really did… they still consider us friends...