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...hostile takeover of global manufacturing. Led by the U.S., critics accused China of clinging to the dollar peg in order to keep the yuan artificially weak, making its exports extra cheap and fostering a worrisome trade gap with the U.S. that ballooned to a record $162 billion in 2004. Unless Beijing changed its currency policy, a trade war loomed. Still, Beijing wouldn't budge, leaving businessmen and investors across the globe guessing as to when this uneasy status quo might finally change?and how dramatically...
...would be affixed to various watering holes throughout the Northeast. When confronted with that theory, Powers demurred. ?We?re a nice, quiet, refined group,? he insisted. ?For instance, on the bus trip, there is a rule: No drinking until the bus passes Bridgeport?-which is nine miles from Westport-?unless absolutely necessary...
There he became the managing editor of the Harvard Law Review, a position that, according to classmate Paul K. Rowe ’76, “you didn’t get unless you were among the top four or five intellectually in the class...
...Broadway shows, visiting New York’s rich collection of museums, and doing just about anything else fun I can find. Though I won’t have any standout lines to add to my résumé by the end of this summer—unless licking envelopes has suddenly become a desirable skill—I have two more summers to do that...
...Corp., a think tank in Virginia. "This reinforces longstanding American concerns about China's willingness to use force over Taiwan and the potential for nuclear escalation." Near the end of his comments last week, Zhu added that he was confident the U.S. and China would not go to war "unless the politicians of these two countries go mad." Keeping the generals in check might help...