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...wouldn't know it from the stock markets, though. Three weeks into April, the MSCI Pacific Index, which includes Australia and Japan, is up 10.4% for the month, and 3% over three months. The MSCI Australia Index has risen 6.6% month-to-date, the Hong Kong index 15%, and Japan 11%. Even hapless Singapore is doing well, thank you very much, boasting gains of 11.7% in the month to April 20 and 7.6% over three months.Read "China Takes On the Global Car Business...
...aughts have been a boom decade for the revival of seemingly terminal franchises. Batman Begins redeemed the Caped Crusader from the hell of Batman & Robin. Casino Royale restored a vividness to James Bond that I wouldn't have believed possible after Die Another Day. The new Battlestar Galactica was a triumph. Superman Returns ... well, you can't blame them for trying...
...wants a union, founded on high ideals of liberty and justice for all, to be maintained only by force of arms or weight of law? I wouldn't make it easy for a state to unfasten itself; we should require that a two-thirds majority of voters agree. But a Zogby poll last summer found that 1 in 5 Americans thinks states and regions should have the right to leave, which means that the revolutionary DNA of 234 years ago still persists in our bloodstream. Maybe every couple of hundred years, the country should have the debate, just to keep...
...ranks around her on Tuesday. The group included House Speaker Pelosi, who said, "Congresswoman Harman has many fans who advocate for her, and to juxtapose that on any other activities ... is just not correct. What is true is that everybody knows I don't respond to threats, so it wouldn't be useful to use them." Added Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Dianne Feinstein: "I know Jane Harman. I know her to be of the highest integrity. She has asked that all the materials connected with it be released, and I hope that her request is granted. I think...
...network engineer. Says Harlin (whose grade point average thus far is 4.0): "Jobs are so hard to come by right now. Why not study and get qualified to do something that will be marketable later?" He adds, "I've always thought about going back to school, but I probably wouldn't have done it if I hadn't gotten laid off. This is the silver lining to a pretty ugly cloud...