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...Hong Kong's port operations, too, have evolved to complement its neighbor, says Michael DeGolyer, a professor at Hong Kong Baptist University who has studied relations between the city and its mainland economic hinterland. "What Shenzhen ports have been doing is straight-through shipment," DeGolyer says. "You fill a full ship with Wal-Mart stuff, and it goes straight to the U.S." That has left Hong Kong's port - which is managed by Hutchison Whampoa, the same Hong Kong conglomerate that operates Shenzhen's - to concentrate on more logistically complex operations, including breaking down containers for shipment to multiple destinations...
...Harvard admissions numbers are concerned, I make up part of the 10.5 percent of the Class of 2010 that is African-American, but I’d like to set the record straight: I’m French-Canadian, Anglo-Scottish, Cherokee African-American...
...hurt and the young man is now working at a local grocery store. Then there was the time a local distinguished community leader complained to Crider's men that his son was addicted to pharmaceuticals and asked them to intervene. The Americans staged an intervention, scaring the young man straight with a fake urine test result...
...hockey team Friday night in its 3-1 loss to St. Lawrence at the Bright Hockey Center. The Crimson dominated much of the play, but in the end, the outcome did not match the team’s performance. The loss marked Harvard’s eighth straight game without a win. “We did enough to have a winning night,” coach Ted Donato ’91 said. “But you can’t take three or four penalties every period and expect the result you want, no matter how hard...
...could sense the media hounds waiting to pounce. John Edwards gave his two cents, and the D.C. blogosphere bubbled with accusations of alligator tears and charges that the future leader of the free world shouldn’t be so emotional. To them, Monsieur (Madame?) le President must be straight-laced and straight-faced. Anything else would be a sign of weakness. Yet again, these wannabe pundits have it backward. If anything, what this political race needs is more emotion. With the airbrushed, carefully coiffed Edwards on one side and the spectacularly bland Obama on the other...