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...China's financial capital. Companies that make a large enough investment even get a street named after them--Siemens Street, for example. But walking around Pudong is an eerie experience: at least three-quarters of the office space is vacant. Such is the impatience of Shanghai to become a world-class city: Build it, and they will come...
...that it would bury radio and that it would be a threat to movies. From the start, TV has provided a generous showcase for other arts--radio performances and movies included. Millions of people who, in earlier centuries or even earlier decades of this century, would never have seen world-class ballets, operas, concerts or museum works of art have seen them on TV. Not quite the same as live, perhaps, but considerably better than nothing...
...former Harvard House master became a world-class opera singer overnight, travelling from Pittsburgh to Amsterdam to Carcacas in a 14-year career spanning dozens of operas. His performance stirred Variety magazine to use the words "Richard T. Gill" and "tour de theatre" in the same sentence...
...less is much, much more. Do not say more than necessary; do not toss superfluous words into written communication, and, if you are a game show contestant with any shred of sensibility, never buy the vowels, You will just be wasting your money, and it does not take a world-class physicist or mathematician to realize that what the letter following that "q" must be. Norretranders' advice, upon distillation, condenses into pure common sense...
...globalization, though, lies with entrepreneurs like Yan who, succeed or fail, are stretching old ideas of economic possibility. "Today all my capital is from abroad. But five years from now, I guarantee you, I'll be able to float a company here in China." He adds, with characteristically world-class ambition, "I'll only have to say, I am Richard...