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Even China's harshest critics doubt that Beijing would deliberately destroy Hong Kong, and most Hong Kong people expect life to go on much as before. "We'll do fine," says Francis Zimmern, patriarch of one of the colony's oldest families and former chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, as he lunches at the old-money Hong Kong Club. "In business I've dealt with China over 50 years, and I've never got a bad check. They've never gone back on an agreement...
Exactly a year ago this week, U.S. News & World Report asked on its cover, "Democrats: Is the Party Over?" Inside it declared that the "world's oldest political party is fighting for its life." Such talk has long since disappeared as the Republicans have spent much time of this year on the defensive. Bill Clinton and the Democrats have recaptured the political center...
...divorce rate doubled. More than 40% of today's young adults had spent time in a single-parent home by age 16. Did the psychic toll produce latch-key basket cases or self-reliant survivors? Undoubtedly, both. In their coupling habits, Gen X is the "youngest copulating and oldest marrying generation ever recorded," note Strauss and Howe. Since 1970 the average marriage age has crept up from 23 to 27 for men and from 21 to 25 for women. For many, it signals caution born of pain. "If I marry, I will never get divorced," says Angel Gambino, a University...
America's oldest University is one of the few examples of stability in one of the fastest changing--and most exclusive--retail enclaves in the northeast...
...When you're America's oldest and richest university and your yield is higher than the other schools and your reputation is world-wide, this [ranking drop] doesn't affect Harvard really one way or another," Elfin said...