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...Analysts suspect that virtually all of China's bankers have skeletons in their closets. Observers argue that wholesale replacement is impossible because of the nation's dearth of experienced, upright managers. "There's no question reform is happening," says Pu Yonghao, senior economist at Nomura International in Hong Kong and a former BOC employee. "But the banks are only mimicking modern, Western practices. Inside, the Chinese personnel just don't have what it takes to make changes quickly enough...
Thank you so much for the encouraging words "Yes, We'll Survive" on your cover with the U.S. Constitution [Dec. 18]. That simple message of hope and optimism, once commonplace in American culture, helped me walk a little more upright. Enough Chicken Littles can indeed, if unchallenged, make the sky fall. Thank you for using your voice to build us all up a bit. You were heard. MARK ARNOLD St. Louis...
...course, they put one foot in front of another. They manage to stay upright. They are ambulatory. But they move very, very slowly; they look up in the air; and most frustrating of all, they walk abreast. All of the other things are tolerable but that...
This is the way David Boies conducts himself when the battle is at its hottest, when losses are mounting and the enemy is preparing for the kill: he sits upright with his gold-framed reading glasses halfway down his nose, a pen and document in hand, while his paralegal, only a few feet away, performs a circus act involving two cell phones, a briefcase and an importunate reporter. Boies' pen makes sharply slanting scratches on a critical legal brief--just one stone in a brutal, driving hail of critical briefs--that must be filed immediately on behalf of Vice President...
Known for the esteemed position which it holds on campus and the reverence that it inspires in students, faculty and administrative staff alike, the council is sure to draw an exceptionally qualified and morally upright group of candidates this year--just as it has done in the past...