Archive for October 26th, 2007

Oct 26 2007

Is Chinese Apolitical?

Published by The Kibbitzer under Current Affairs

I think they are.  There are five Chinese Americans who had won Nobel Prize in science, but there isn’t one that is readily known in the political realm.  Ok, perhaps Elaine Chao, the Secretary of Labor is one, Gary Locke, the demo governor of Washington (I first learned this from Uncle Jimmy who lives in Seattle), and who else?  Well, I could google [...]

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Oct 26 2007

The Money Honey

Published by The Kibbitzer under Current Affairs

In Facetime (Bizwk 11/5/07), Bartiromo interviewed Victor Chu, who is teaming up with Sir Branson bidding for Northern Rock: 

MB: By all accounts, you are a master of guanzi, those personal connections so vital to doing business in China.  Can outsiders ever hope to establish such relationships?
VC: Maria, I think this is a worldwide phenmonon  [...]

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Oct 26 2007

Barenboim played with ball

Published by The Kibbitzer under View from Bottom

I was searching on the net for some thing musical, came across this old article, an event happened on 7/7/2001, on his second encore with Berlin Staatskapelle orchestra in Jerusalem, he conducted Wagner.  Bravo.  He said ‘”Despite what the Israel festival believes, there are people sitting in the audience for whom Wagner does not spark Nazi [...]

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Oct 26 2007

BG100

Published by The Kibbitzer under Trade of the day


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Oct 26 2007

Nobel winner resigns post

Published by The Kibbitzer under Current Affairs

James Watson, after being quoted as questioning Africans’ intelligence.  How pity, for someone speaking the truth.  It is what it is, as Hillary Clinton would say.  Each race and group has its own set of characters due to geography.  But there are certainly exceptions to this measure.  That’s why for each individual we need to deal individually.
It [...]

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Oct 26 2007

Ex 1st lady ..

Published by The Kibbitzer under Current Affairs

Cécilia Sarkozy’s newly named as director of the Norma Major school for the spouses of political leaders, University of Paris I.  So her perspective would be in the past tense now that she’d divorced? 

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