Word: unexpectedness
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Weijian Shan, a managing partner of U.S. private-equity fund Newbridge Capital, learned some unexpected lessons about business in China's Gobi Desert. During the Cultural Revolution, Shan, a Beijing native, was banished there for six years. By day, he sweated under the blistering sun, tilling the soil and herding...
Rivoli excels at making those sorts of unexpected connections. She even finds one between antiglobalization activists and free traders. The opportunities opened up by trade are vast, she argues, but free markets need the correcting mechanism of political activism to keep them in check. True economic progress needs them both...
Weijian Shan, a managing partner of U.S. private-equity fund Newbridge Capital, learned some unexpected lessons about business in China's Gobi Desert. During the Cultural Revolution, Shan, a Beijing native, was banished there for six years. By day, he sweated under the blistering sun, tilling the soil and herding...
Veronica Mars the ideal may not exist outside the collective imaginations of several million viewers, but maybe I can find a Veronica Mars of my own. I will continue to look for facets of Veronica Mars in unexpected people and places, but I refuse to lower my standards. I refuse...
The storm of criticism facing University President Lawrence H. Summers has been quantified and codified. With the Faculty’s unexpected passing of a measure indicating the body’s lack of confidence in Summers’ leadership abilities, we can now put a number, 218, to what...