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...would think that China's Donald Trump would be an ex-People's Liberation Army soldier who majored in drainage at the Lanzhou Railroad College? But Wang Shi, who made a spectacular decision in 1984 when he moved to a tiny backwater called Shenzhen, is the country's most successful real estate mogul. He heeded Deng Xiaoping's call to explore the virtues of capitalism, starting a trading company that moved everything from copy machines to the odd crate of shellfish. Although private property was still a dirty word in communist China, in 1993 Wang invested in real estate...
...bellicose mood. Both recent history and the laws of dramaturgy tell us, even before the beginning of the play--in its U.S. premiere at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum--how this debate between unequals will come out; in life or onstage, single-minded passion will always trump tense dispassion...
...Adult stem cells are not the biological equivalents of embryonic stem cells, and adult stem cells will not satisfy all scientific and medical needs,” he said to the Senate subcommittee. “Claiming that the study of adult stem cells should trump the study of embryonic stem cells is an opinion at the fringe and not the forefront of scientific thinking....Ultimately this will slow the pace of medical research and compromise the next generation of medical breakthroughs...
...York, and has since become one of the most formidable forces in the city’s real estate industry. Wein & Malkin owns several large properties in midtown Manhattan, including the Empire State Building, purchased in 2002. Malkin and his associates bought the building for $57.5 million from Donald Trump, after several years of bitter legal battles with Trump and his co-investor, Hideki Yokoi...
...drawn "lesser-evil" backing from reformist voters if they lacked a candidate of their own. Allowing the reformists to run potentially splits Rafsanjani's vote, improving the chances of hard-liners. Even if the reformers win, the Khatami years have proven that the clerical bodies controlled by the conservatives trump the power of the presidency. The Supreme Leader is also concerned to maintain a modicum of popular consent for Iran's institutions. Reformers had threatened to boycott the election, which could damage the state's legitimacy in the eyes of its citizens - voter turnout in the tightly controlled elections...