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Nestled among bamboo forests in rolling hills a 2 ½-hour drive from Shanghai, Moganshan is a once glamorous hill-station retreat that is just beginning to reawaken. In the early decades of the 20th century, foreign residents of Shanghai - later followed by rich Chinese families - flocked to these hills for relief during the humid summers. They built sprawling houses complete with swimming pools, tennis courts and dance floors. After the communist takeover, Moganshan retreated into obscurity, with many of the mansions crumbling into ruin. But in the past decade, visitors have been drawn back to it by its serene...
Moving to Japan's stock market, which has been comatose for years, are conditions taking shape for its bull to reawaken? I think they are. Consumer confidence in July rose, exceeding expectations, and there's been a sharp acceleration in industrial production. Also, there is an election in another week, and it's pretty clear that the LDP [Japan's ruling party] is going to lose. The new party that's coming in intends to put through programs that will increase the amount of money that the average Japanese [person has], thereby stimulating personal spending. For example, it intends...
...that america has become the pothole of the world economy? I think it's because the American people, losing their frontier spirit, sat back, relaxed and enjoyed their opulent status quo. They wallowed in their country's No. 1 position in the world too long. They have to reawaken themselves in a belt-tightening way, not in a nebulously optimistic one. Il-Hwan Lee, Seoul...
...faculty to rejoin the revolutionary party after a period of sad separation; 1991 found him saying he was “glad to see [Marxism] dead and gone” and planning “to keep a careful watch to stomp on it” should it reawaken. What exactly this ‘stomping’ might constitute remains unclear, but we can only assume that hundreds of Mansfield’s colleagues have ‘disappeared’ when they wouldn’t keep their mouth shut about the proletariat.At any rate, current students seem...
...innings earlier, Harvard seemed poised to grab the upset win after seizing the lead in dramatic fashion in the top half of the seventh. But Melissa Hodge blasted a two-out, full-count home run off junior ace Shelly Madick to send the contest into extra innings and reawaken the soggy crowd of 209 at the Hofstra Softball Stadium on Long Island. “Hodge’s home run was probably one of the clutchest home runs I have ever seen, and I’ve been around a long time,” Pride skipper Bill Edwards...