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...rally was Mass. Power Shift’s first official event held at Harvard. “It’s good that we’re now established as a campaign here,” said event organizer Sophia Wen ’12, who is also a Crimson photography editor. “We can start being talked about...
...credentials showing that he would support more large increases in military expenditure, are usually cited as reasons for not being backed by the PLA. But other analysts argue that the cause probably lay in a broader factional divide in the Party that pits supporters of Hu and Premier Wen Jiabao against the so-called Princelings, children of Party elders and an allied group dubbed the Shanghai Gang, which coalesced around Hu's predecessor Jiang Zemin. (Read "China's 60th Birthday: The Road to Prosperity...
...Seven Easy Pieces. Now she's broadening her vision with the Urban Zen initiative, looking for alternative-therapy solutions for patient care. Luxury comes in all shapes: Spanx founder Sara Blakely's brand was born of her personal quest for a sleeker silhouette. Thirty-five-year-old business whiz Wen Zhou craved luxury but couldn't afford it, so she teamed up with designer Phillip Lim to build an accessible brand. As Angela Ahrendts, CEO of Burberry, points out, luxury doesn't have to mean attitude; in fact, nothing could be more dated...
...province, were sentenced to six and 11 years in jail when previously they would have received little more than a fine. (The state-run Xinhua news service noted it was the first time defendants "were jailed on charges of spreading poison.") During his visit, too, Blair met with Premier Wen Jiabao and the chief engineer of the nation's efforts to develop environmentally friendly technology, Vice Premier Li Keqiang. He came away struck by the leadership's willingness to acknowledge the country's pollution woes. The central government has made the environment a key part of its next five-year...
...Contrary to constant press reports in China and abroad, which say the Chinese side of the iron-ore price negotiations are being conducted on Beijing's side by the Chinese Iron and Steel Association, they are, in fact, being run straight out of Premier Wen Jiabao's office. And Wen, says the banking source, has "not been a happy man" since the Chinalco deal fell apart earlier this summer. Don't misread, in other words, the absence of the state-secrets charge against the Rio Four as evidence that the extraordinary face-off between China and one of the world...