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...Chinese leaders, too, are prone to Japan-baiting to garner popular support. An incursion into Japanese waters last November by a Chinese submarine was applauded on many mainland websites as a sign of growing Chinese power. In recent weeks, several nationalist websites that were previously shut down by Beijing have been allowed to campaign against Japan's U.N. Security Council bid, signaling that China might use a populist outpouring as a rationale for blocking Japan's membership. In Beijing last Saturday, thousands of anti-Japan protesters were allowed to march to the Japanese embassy, where they threw bottles and demanded...
...didn’t shut us down by any means,” Kerper said. “We had few strikeouts...
Harvard extended its shutout streak against Columbia (6-5, 0-3) to three seasons Saturday, as it took just over two hours to shut down the Lions in front of a crowd of more than 100 fans...
...business venture, the expansion into Continental Europe by British retailer Marks & Spencer, which accelerated in the mid-1990s, was an expensive failure. In 2001, the company shut down or sold its stores in Belgium, France and Germany after incurring losses of $186 million. But the ultimate cost, it now turns out, is likely to be far, far higher - not for the firm itself, but for the British Treasury and governments across the European Union. The reason: Marks & Spencer is on the verge of setting a precedent in European tax law, one that directly challenges national tax policies in many...
Over the past two seasons, Harvard’s record against Cornell and Columbia has been all but perfect, as the Crimson shut out Columbia 7-0 and beat Cornell 5-2 last season and shut out both teams...