The “E.M.B.A.” program that kicks off on a Sunday morning in the heart of Shanghai’s financial district is much like any other curriculum designed to train the future business leaders of China.
Cover Story: Asia’s Overscheduled Kids
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The Cost of Candor
I’m not really a size 4.
Why Pakistan’s Taliban Target the Muslim Majority
Although Pakistan’s headlines are dominated by the violent excesses of Taliban extremists, the majority of Pakistanis subscribe to the more mystical Sufi tradition of the country’s Barelvi school of Islam. And attacks on their places of worship are becoming depressingly familiar
Two Journalists Arrested in Britain’s New Phone-Hacking Probe
When a reporter from Rupert Murdoch’s British Sunday paper the News of the World was jailed, along with a private detective, in 2007 for hacking into the cellphone voicemails of aides to the royal family, the paper insisted it was a one-off — a “rogue reporter” operating without the knowledge or approval of his bosses. That assertion prompted two reactions from those in the U.K
Box Office Weekend: A Christmas Carol Wins And Loses
It’s Sunday morning in Hollywood, and the experts have declared the winners and losers of the weekend box office, for which the celebrity contenders were Jim Carrey in Disney’s A Christmas Carol, George Clooney in The Men Who Stare at Goats and Cameron Diaz in The Box. Headline in The Wrap: “$31M Lump of Coal for ‘Christmas Carol’.” And from Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood: “Happy Holidays?
Madoff investor drowns in Florida pool
A key investor with convicted swindler Bernie Madoff drowned in his swimming pool Sunday afternoon, police said.
Dozens killed in Baghdad double bombing
At least 65 people were killed and 420 wounded in a double bombing in central Baghdad on Sunday morning, officials said.
Mom says missing daughter had been excited about concert
The mother of a Virginia Tech junior who disappeared Saturday night during a Metallica concert says she helped her daughter choose an outfit for the show that same morning.
For young mom, new CPR beat back death
The Hardens were losing track of each other’s conversations. It had been a long, exhausting day for both Scott, a sheriff’s deputy, and Kathie, an elementary school teacher.
Russian chess legends face off
Chess legends Garry Kasparov and Anatoli Karpov faced off again in Spain on Tuesday, 25 years after their epic first world championship battle in Moscow, in what organizers are calling a “historic revenge match.” Revenge or not, the past chess champs will receive undisclosed sums for playing the three-day, 12-game match in the eastern port city of Valencia. There will be no additional cash prize for the winner of the exhibition event, which the regional Valencia government is organizing under the title “Valencia, cradle of modern chess,” event spokesman Rafa Carretero told CNN.