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...protectionism could bust his big plans. Asset Underwear, which grossed $10 million in exports in 2002, recently began negotiating with Sara Lee, maker of Playtex and Wonderbra, to produce some of its lingerie. But the quotas on Chinese bras, bathrobes and knits have forced the Chicago company to withdraw. Yang is mystified. "Why can't the Americans stick to making what we can't?" he asks. "For things like bras, nobody can compete with China." Right you are, Mr. Yang, which is why the U.S.'s uneasy embrace of globalization is chafing against China's emergence as the world...
...student from the Republic of Georgia, he was arrested for felony sexual assault in January 2002 when his accuser, an aquaintance, alleged that he had pulled her into his room and raped her. A visit to his jail cell in the aftermath by a Harvard official was appropriately curt: withdraw, his visitor told him, or face a worse punishment from the GSE’s version of the Ad Board, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, Zedginidze recalled...
Here is where the Geneva agreement complements the road map. It represents a model for the road map’s third phase at the outset by resolving four crucial problems unsolved in previous negotiations. First, the agreement settles the borders of the non-militarized Palestinian state: Israel would withdraw to its 1967 borders, dismantling the major part of the Jewish settlements. Where dismantlement is no longer possible, the resulting loss of Palestinian land would be compensated by “one to one” land swap. Second, the agreement deals with the question of Jerusalem, dividing it into...
...final round, however, he had to withdraw due to a major concussion which may keep the talented freshman sidelined for the rest of the year. Preston had suffered a concussion at the East Stroudsburg Invitational...
...said his grandmother detested her daily task of shining the shoes of every Brentford Hall resident and would withdraw to her home on Mass. Ave. to “escape from bondage...