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...unraveling. China's homegrown portals, the sites Web-crawlers use as their home pages, are slowly bleeding to death. Years from becoming profitable, Sina, Netease and Sohu are burning through cash stockpiled from their IPOs, and their founders?China's best-known Internet heroes?are starting to wonder who among them will fold or sell out first...
...respectable six points in eight minutes of play. The man who was greeted at Dallas' Reunion Arena by a sign that read "Welcome to Wang's World" seemed more than a little stunned. "I can score on an NBA floor," said the 23-year-old, with a touch of wonder in his voice. "A Chinese player can play against the best basketball players...
...With such grandstanding political gestures it's little wonder that Schröder has become the target of criticism herself. Fellow Greens in the European Parliament have called her a "mischief-maker" and a "pain in the neck" and even demanded her expulsion from the party. Despite such censure, Schröder remains undeterred. "In contrast to [German Foreign Minister Joschka] Fischer & Co., my political statements are firmly grounded in the Green manifesto," she contends...
...wonder they were in a good mood. The debate was unscripted, a reminder of how the place operated in the freewheeling days when Senators actually used the brass spittoons under the antique desks. Such spontaneity is rare under majority leader Trent Lott, who does his best to precook and shrink-wrap bills before they reach the floor. But in this debate, neither side knew in advance what amendments the other was putting forward, and no one knew how most of the votes would come out. "I couldn't tell you today whether [an amendment] is going to get 20 votes...
...interest by suggesting it is good for all. Managers equate their own success with what is good for their employees. Politicians invariably believe their own reelection is nirvana for the electorate. So much of our politics is based solely on self-interest. Is it any wonder that people of high incomes tend to be Republicans and people of low income tend to be Democrats...