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Like all other foreign journalists in China, I get my share of criticism from Chinese readers, mostly about my stories on TIME's website or my posts on our China Blog. Some of the criticism can be pretty sharp--that comes with the territory. But the opprobrium has taken on a distinctly unpleasant edge in recent weeks as a wave of nationalist anger has roiled China. "Simon, you will be hated by 1.3 billion Chinese," someone wrote in response to my blog post about the chaotic progress of the Olympic torch through London. "Hope someday someone will spit on your...
Dodging the credit crunch has burnished its image, too. According to the MDRC survey, lenders hit hardest by the subprime snafu suffered sharp drops in client-satisfaction scores at their private-banking or wealth-management units. The worry, says Williams, was that "these pristine organizations were shown to be pretty sloppily run." Take UBS, the world's largest asset manager. Exposure to the U.S. mortgage market at its investment-banking unit has triggered $37 billion in write-downs over the last few months. Spooked by these signs of slack judgment, some private-banking clients have yanked their cash; shareholders have...
Harvard Green Campus Initiative Director Leith J. Sharp said she hopes that the green attitudes practiced will spread beyond the competition’s participants...
...crisis appeared to remain stalemated, despite the fresh fighting and sharp rhetoric. The advance by Iraqi security forces on Sadr City seems to have stalled, and it remains unclear what picture will be revealed in Basra in the coming days following the supposed gains by Iraqi troopers. Iraqi security forces have yet to land a major blow against al-Sadr's militia, and reports of defection and retreats by Iraqi troopers fighting militiamen continue to circulate...
...three innings and then padded their lead in the seventh. The final two runs turned out to be the winning margin. “They came out aggressive, they came out swinging,” Allard said of Boston College. “We weren’t real sharp on the mound today. I think them jumping on pitchers early definitely helped them take some momentum early.” —Staff writer Julia R. Senior can be reached at jrsenior@fas.harvard.edu...