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...Even in Washington, Cold War victory has left an ambiguous legacy. An inevitable showdown with an "Evil Empire" is no longer the organizing principle of national politics. The symptoms of that absence are varied and often morbid, from the new depths of tabloid tawdriness plumbed in Washington's partisan battles over the past decade to the palpable absence of a sense of national purpose or global mission in the capital...
...should foreign players make a dash for this market? China's PDA manufacturers are glad to weigh in with advice. "They will surely fail," says Sher. Less partisan observers offer this suggestion: come in, but proceed with care. A billion plus Chinese means a lot of appointments are being forgotten and phone numbers lost. Somebody has to get them organized...
...years, of course, the Republicans have leveled the playing field considerably. Before last November?s election, the Democrats controlled only 19 governorships while the GOP controlled 29. Of the 49 bicameral state legislatures, Democrats controlled 19, Republicans held 17, while 13 others were split. (Nebraska has a unicameral non-partisan legislature...
Michael E. Porter, Lawrence University professor and director of the Harvard’s Center for Strategy and Competitiveness, cut off negotiations last week with the Thai government on a proposed study of the country’s stagnant economy. Porter cited misinformation and partisan bickering as a barrier to the study...
...concluded regretfully that the political climate in Thailand at the moment is too partisan to have a productive and constructive discussion about competitiveness,” Porter wrote...