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...devices' distinctive security features, such as encrypted e-mail and the ability for corporate IT departments to remotely erase downloaded messages in case of loss or theft. Once a niche player in the handheld market, BlackBerry, as Lazaridis puts it, "is now standard-issue everywhere." As of August, nearly twice as many people in the U.S. owned a BlackBerry Pearl 8100 or 8130 - two devices that are also geared more toward consumers than business users - than an iPhone 3G, according to M:Metrics...
...Lejiang says it's already happening. He's chairman of Baosteel, one of China's giant steelmakers, and since August, he has had to cut prices twice as demand suddenly cooled off in what had been a booming industry. The era of rapid growth for Chinese steel "will soon be remembered as history," he says. The Chinese stock market has also been hit hard - it's down about 60% this year - but the nation's banking system has for the moment largely been sheltered from the international storm because it's only partly open to the global capital flows that...
...every thinking man in America” (they were big on the gender bias back then) was behind him, Adlai Stevenson replied, “Thank you, but I need a majority to win.” Again, sadly, he was right—this time, twice over; he lost to Ike by a landslide, and, fifty years later, White House aspirants are still appealing, with success, to blinkered self-righteousness and total thoughtlessness.James M. Larkin ’10, a Crimson associate editorial editor, is a social studies concentrator in Quincy House...
...deputy in the national presidency, and Zuma was later charged with corruption in connection with the same case, and also put on trial on a rape charge. But Zuma staged a remarkable comeback. He was acquitted of the rape charge in 2006, and the corruption case against him was twice thrown out, most recently last month, when the judge also criticized "baleful political interference" in the case - a clear reference to Mbeki's camp. At the same time, Zuma managed to corral widespread disaffection with the results of the pro-business economic policies of Mbeki's government into a leadership...
...based consulting firm, the price for products used primarily in construction have fallen to less than $590 per ton, down almost 20% in just four months, forcing some companies into the red in what had been a booming industry. Baosteel, one of China's largest steelmakers, has cut prices twice since August, and its CEO is glum: The era of rapid growth for China's steel industry "will soon be remembered as history," says Xu Lejiang...