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...trying to influence markets, policymakers must balance on a tightrope amid shifting financial winds. Some investors are already miffed at the government for allowing the IPO spigot to open wide, saying that the burgeoning supply of shares could push prices down. As far as the authorities are concerned, a bit of a correction is probably welcome. But they don't want a bust. When the Shanghai Composite Index plunged 8.8% in February after analysts warned Beijing was about to impose a capital-gains tax, the government quickly backed off. Stocks resumed their rise, but dangers remain. As tech investors learned...
...started writing this book thinking that I would write it based on my own experience. But after I talked to other people, I found that my experience was just one of many. So the book now reflects the concerns of the really diverse, wide-ranging group of people who have responded to their own devastating diagnoses, or to those of family members...
...First Lady will doubtless be best remembered for her wide-ranging efforts to beautify the U.S. While her anti-billboard campaign fizzled, her tree plantings and her continual calls for more parks and better playgrounds have made many Americans more thoughtful about the quality of their environment. Lyndon Johnson once complained, tongue in cheek: "Sometimes I'm interrupted in my nap by Lady Bird and Laurance Rockefeller and about 80 others in the next room talking about flowers and roadside picnic tables...
Flier was a founding member of the Harvard University Science and Engineering Committee (HUSEC), a group focused on improving University-wide science initiatives. Faust, in her first few months since being named president, has already emphasized her desire to bring Harvard's 10 schools closer together through University-wide initiatives like the science planning led by HUSEC...
...Thus far U.S. opposition has done little to dampen Chen's enthusiasm for an island-wide referendum. For Chen, who is coming to the end of his final term as president, it's an issue of legacy, says Loh Chih-cheng, a political science professor at Soochow University in Taipei. "He's pushing to make his name in history," Loh says. (Yang notes that all this could be the president's canny understanding of voter math in Taiwan: a referendum in 2004 helped get out the vote during Chen's re-election campaign.) The opposition Kuomintang (KMT) has accused Chen...