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...Hollywood extravaganzas blow into Cannes every year, and among all the serioso European and Asian fare that dominates the Competition they're like a clown visiting a children's ward: colorful, noisy, oversize and full of professional pep, compared to the wan, torporous little things languishing immobile in their beds. So today, when Ocean's Thirteen was the main attraction, many critics anticipated it with pleasure- if only as playtime after a week's homework studying and reporting on the worthiest art films...
...Shanghai stock market than there is in bank savings accounts nationwide-this in a country where the per capita income last year was about $1,750. Yet the mania only seems to grow. On May 9, the total turnover on Chinese bourses exceeded that of all other Asian stock exchanges combined, a first. There are even reports of retail investors borrowing against newly purchased apartments or houses-shades of Japan in the late 1980s-to buy stocks. "I'm afraid this thing is in its final frenzy," says Andy Xie, an independent economist in Shanghai. "People are going...
Conservatives are angry that amnesty is on the table. On the other side, Latino, Asian and Catholic groups have been lobbying Democrats furiously, arguing that families provide a social safety net, a built-in acculturation system and job and language training that the government--and taxpayers--would otherwise have to fund. Their champion in the Senate is Massachusetts Democrat Ted Kennedy, which is why Kyl and Kennedy have been meeting in back rooms of the Capitol to haggle over a point-based system in which both skills and family ties would count to an applicant's advantage. But under...
...fact, whereas Asians comprise roughly 2 percent of all NCAA Division I recruits, approximately 6 percent of Harvard’s student-athletes is Asian, compared to 17 percent of the student body...
...unusual alliance of big-state Democrats and Iraq war hawks is coalescing around a campaign to force European and Asian multinational corporations to stop doing business with Iran, in order to pressure Tehran over its nuclear program and its support for militants in Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories...