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...William Fung, Li & Fung's group managing director, calls this intricate logistical dance "borderless manufacturing." You might think that an activity without borders could be managed from anywhere, and maybe it could. But in practice, the global supply chain has a headquarters, and it is in the Chinese Special Administrative Region and former British colony whose economic demise has been trumpeted more times than Paris Hilton has hit a party. Hong Kong's air may be foul and its public-education system may lag that of competitors like Singapore, but somehow or other, it continues to reinvent itself. Almost...
...manufacturers decamped to the mainland to take advantage of the country's vast supply of cheap workers. The trading firms stayed behind. In fact, as more and more manufacturing moved into China, locating a headquarters in Hong Kong, on the doorstep of southern China's industrial parks, became imperative. William E. Connor & Associates, for example, was originally founded as a purchasing office for foreign companies in Japan but changed its headquarters to Hong Kong...
...William Kristol's "There Is a Way Forward in Iraq" [Jan. 15]: Kristol is one among a thinning crowd of neocon true believers who still grope for some shred of justification for the worst foreign policy debacle in a generation. When he writes that the death of Saddam "might remind Americans of the fundamental justice of this war," he has convenient amnesia on a key fact. The Administration did not sell the Iraq war as a quest for justice; it sold it by telling lies about Iraq's WMD and al-Qaeda connections and imminent threats. When all those proved...
...would have done things�"differently," said U.S. military spokesman Major General William B. Caldwell IV, referring to the appalling scene at Saddam's hanging. Whoever videoed the event has brought into our homes the ultimate reality of U.S. and British foreign policy in action, and it would have been no less brutal if done "differently." There is no dignity at the end of a rope at any time. Standing defiantly in the wreckage they have brought about, President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair--through their actions and inaction, words and silence--stand not apart from but shoulder to shoulder...
...Mullignan, has criticized such laws vociferously. He pointed out that, for instance, in the city of Boston “unless you’re on the tarmac of Logan Airport, you’re within 1,000 feet of a school.” Similarly, state Representative William Brownsberger, who worked on drug cases as an assistant attorney general,” made the “moderation of mandatory sentencing policies” an integral part of his legislative platform. According to a study he conducted, a full 80 percent of drug cases occur within these zones...