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...First, free trade's defenders say, it is unrealistic to assume that China or India will suddenly develop a monstrous capacity in high-end, high-technology innovation. "The oft repeated argument that India and China will quickly educate 300 million of their citizens to acquire sophisticated and complex skills," write Bhagwati and his colleagues, "borders on the ludicrous. The educational sectors in those countries face enormous difficulties." This rings true. For the past few months, there have been reports of skilled-labor shortages in the most economically advanced areas of China. Second, free traders argue that even if China...
Leaders of the Shi'ites and the Kurds, who together make up 80% of the population and are likely to be disproportionately represented in the new Assembly, have promised to include Sunnis in the government. Ensuring Sunni participation is crucial to the Assembly's most important task: writing a new Iraqi constitution, which must be drafted by Aug. 15 and put to a nationwide referendum by Oct. 15. Sunnis in and outside Iraq fret that a Shi'ite-dominated Assembly might produce fears of an Iranian-style Shi'ite theocracy taking root in Baghdad. But Iraqi Shi'ite leaders have...
DIED. VIRGINIA MAYO, 84, Hollywood blond of the 1940s and '50s who inspired the Sultan of Morocco to write her a fan letter in which he called her "tangible proof of the existence of God"; in Thousand Oaks, Calif. She played opposite stars from Bob Hope (The Princess and the Pirate) to James Cagney (White Heat) but won her greatest critical acclaim as Dana Andrews' cheating wife in the Oscar-winning World War II drama The Best Years of Our Lives...
...DIED. VIRGINIA MAYO, 84, Hollywood actress of the '40s and '50s who inspired the Sultan of Morocco to write her a fan letter calling her "tangible proof of the existence of God"; in Thousand Oaks, California. She started out as a chorus member in musicals and played opposite stars ranging from Bob Hope (The Princess and the Pirate) to James Cagney (White Heat). Her looks overshadowed her acting, but she won critical acclaim as Dana Andrews' cheating wife in William Wyler's Oscar-winning World War II drama, The Best Years of Our Lives...
...Last fall, police shut down "A Complete Mess," China's most lively forum for political debate on the Internet, without ever explaining why. Then discussions of the forum's demise were banned from other websites. Propaganda officials have ordered reporters at the Legal Daily and other newspapers not to write any "negative" articles about the police or the judicial system. And in late December, three of China's most outspoken writers were taken from their Beijing homes by police, interrogated and warned to shut up before they were released. One of them, essayist Yu Jie, is regularly followed by plainclothes...