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...down their masters, even their renowned leader, Narcissus. He himself, unlike our own dear Imperator, is compelled to debate and argue his rights and responsibilities with the masses, who hold his future in their hands. Narcissus has no Praetorian Guard to protect him, merely a collection of sophists who toil day and night to coin the arguments, often specious, for him to make before the city’s courts...
...China's Women The pathetic condition of women in China is a thorn in the side of all those who toil for the equality of humanity [July 28]. One should not believe women are the weaker sex. In today's world, women have achieved as much as, or more than, men in many fields of endeavor. History shows that there have been many women who ruled nations better than men. Chinese women are the light of the country and the lamp of the family. When we darken the lives of women, we are darkening our own families and country...
After 17 years of anonymous toil helping build Sanford Weill into a Wall Street legend, and Citigroup into the largest banking institution in the world, Charles Prince has earned his moment in the spotlight. The question is, Will he ever...
...arrogance--is what makes people dream big and reach high. Competent, reliable USA Today may have become a good newspaper by trading off the swagger that makes a great newspaper. Of course, as the Times's recent experience has shown, there's a case to be made for quiet toil. At least in this sense, for one big yet oft overlooked newspaper, no news really is good news. --With reporting by Andrea Sachs/McLean, Va., and Amanda Bower/New York
...runneth over. In 2002, says the entrepreneur from western China's Sichuan province, his private company made and sold $2.5 million worth of paper containers for food and beverages. He has four production lines making paper cups in hangar-like buildings, and 20 young women from the countryside toil in the yard beside them, pasting labels for White Family Potato Noodles onto single-serving bowls. Business has never been better. Yet Mao, like so many other owners of private companies in China, can't get funding to take his firm to a higher level...