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...wife since she suffered devastating brain damage in 1990 to understand this point. Nor must one even agree with Florida’s (and every other state’s) law that leaves it up to the spouse to make the life-or-death decision for a permanently incapacitated partner who has not left a living will specifying a course of action. The salient point is that states have a right to enact such statutes, and it is for the state to assume responsibility for their decisions and deal with the consequences. Congress and President Bush overstepped their bounds early...
...thesis was determining the books I read, the music I listened to, the movies I watched, what time I went to bed at night and woke up in the morning, kind of like a domineering romantic partner,” says T. Josiah Pertz...
During a recent breakfast meeting between Howard Chao, the partner in charge of O'Melveny & Myers' Asia practice, and a Silicon Valley venture-capital tycoon shopping for a lawyer with expertise there, the conversation was less a sales pitch by Chao than a freewheeling exchange about corporate-finance trends and upcoming investment opportunities. The portfolio manager left the meeting enlightened about the Chinese business landscape, and Chao got a new client as well as a referral to a company in the VC's portfolio that might also need his counsel. Most people would call that rainmaking. Chao calls it "knowledge...
Weijian Shan, a managing partner of U.S. private-equity fund Newbridge Capital, learned some unexpected lessons about business in China's Gobi Desert. During the Cultural Revolution, Shan, a Beijing native, was banished there for six years. By day, he sweated under the blistering sun, tilling the soil and herding cattle?or healing villagers as one of Mao's famous "barefoot doctors." At night, he listened to Voice of America on a small radio, studied an English dictionary and hoped for something better. "When you have a job in the Gobi with absolutely no hope and no future, you learn...
...trip, Rice gave the impression that the U.S can live with this state of affairs. Indeed, Washington's relations with the three great Asian powers are excellent. From being a cold war near-ally of the Soviet Union, India has turned into a partner of the U.S., one to which Rice said Washington now offered "a decisively broader strategic relationship." Japan, where Rice gave her keynote speech of the week, has become much more than a regional friend. Japan's leaders now discuss with Washington common global objectives from poverty relief to nuclear proliferation. As for China, Rice told journalists...