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...secure a pipeline from Russia has especially frustrated China's leaders. Siberian oil is transported into China at great expense on trains and trucks. For years Beijing has lobbied its former communist brother for a pipeline to refineries in Daqing. During a visit to Moscow last month, Premier Wen Jiabao repeated China's entreaties but received no promises. Meanwhile, Japan has offered to pay for part of the multibillion-dollar pipeline--as long as it terminates in the Russian port of Nakhodka, near Japan. Moscow seems inclined to take Japan's offer. "China feels betrayed," says Bernard Cole, an expert...
Nancy M. Cline, Larsen Librarian of Harvard College, signed the agreement on Sunday with Professor Cheng Huan-wen, director of Sun Yat-Sen University Library in Guangzhou, China...
...Wen would not disclose the specifics of his profits or losses, but said he makes enough money playing poker that he does not need a campus...
...Wen, who said he has lost as much as $1,000 and won up to $2,000 in single sittings, plans to scale back later this month...
...going to play the week before midterms,” Wen said...