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...says the state of the Chinese Internet is even more ominous than total control: "It feels almost normal, so people don't think about what it is they can't get." If anything, the Web has been a galvanizing force for Chinese nationalism. The anti-Japanese riots that broke out last year over a Japanese textbook that underplayed wartime atrocities in China were largely organized online--with government sanction...
...Davos. The most impressive Chinese present were government servants, technocrats who could talk the language of international trade and finance as if they had degrees from the best graduate schools in the U.S. (which of course many have). The best Indians, by contrast - and this was before the news broke of Lakshmi Mittal's audacious bid for Europe's steel giant Arcelor - were business leaders from the private sector, already building brands (as very few Chinese firms yet have done) with a global reputation. This speaks to a significant difference in the Chinese and Indian economies. Mittal may have spurred...
...physical flaws disappears. To enlarge the slim plot into a full-length movie, Thompson—who also wrote the script—throws in a half-baked storyline involving Mr. Brown’s financial and marital problems. When wealthy Great Aunt Adelaide (Angela Lansbury) tells the broke Mr. Brown he must marry or will lose her financial assistance, he settles on Ms. Quickly (Celia Imrie), a horrid social climber. The children and Nanny McPhee must band together to rid themselves of these two terrors. The film is extremely visually arresting; its creative team dresses the characters in brightly...
According to Oertli and Vance, one student protester broke the silence to ask the military recruiters if they knew the number of service members who had been discharged under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy...
...False) A water main broke in Salt Lake City on Super Bowl Sunday 1984, hydropowering this myth. But no link has ever been found between the Super Bowl and toilet bowls...