Word: xie
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During his college years, Ford converted to Islam. He was initially discreet about his newfound faith, though it gradually began to take over his life. In 1998 he returned to China for more studies, enrolling at the prestigious Hopkins center in Nanjing. There he met local journalist Xie Chunlin, whom he brought back to the U.S. and married in 2000. Ford briefly interned in the office of Portland Mayor Vera Katz but otherwise supported his family by selling cell phones. He became more serious about his faith, letting his beard grow, wearing a Muslim cap and studying Arabic. Friends...
...eyed man with a two-day growth of beard wandering the tunnels connecting subway stations in central Tokyo. "HELP ME," reads a sign around his neck. "RESTRUCTURED." There were nearly 20,000 bankruptcies last year - the second-highest yearly total since World War II. "It's simple," says Andy Xie, Morgan Stanley's chief economist for the Asia Pacific region. "Japan has not evolved into a postindustrial econ-omy. Its dominant role in manufacturing isn't sustainable, not with countries like China gradually taking over this role." According to a recent study by the Japan Research Institute, an economic think...
...poured $27.7 billion into the city in the past 10 years, while Shanghai's gross domestic product has grown at an average of 10% a year, compared with 3.7% average growth for Hong Kong. "Hong Kong was never really a gateway to China; it was a window," says Andy Xie, executive director of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in Hong Kong. "But why would you want to go through the window when the door is wide open...