With a father who is a toppled Communist leader and a mother accused of murder, the son, Bo Guagua, is now under scrutiny over reports of a lavish student lifestyle that have raised questions about where China's top cadres find their money.
Columnists are the heart and soul of any journalistic enterprise.The unfettered voices of a newspaper or magazine, they opine, snarl, and otherwise shout from the treetops.The best columnists have a mastery of subject, an ironclad take, and complete command of the written word. As Fortune columnist Geoff Colvin once told me, to succeed as a writer you must grab the reader by the lapels, shake him, and never let him go.
The Harry Potter star expects to spend a year in the U.K., then return to Brown University
Alison Kosik briefs us on the latest passport protocol in this "On The Go."
The garbage bag bulges with sweaters, dresses, tunics, shoes, and belts that have languished in my closets for years, waiting for a comeback that's just never gonna come.
Joshua Scowcroft has lived through some intense winter weather in the decade he's lived in Vermont. But this winter -- which offered an encore Monday in the form of up to 30 inches of snow -- takes the cake.
A tornado rips through a Louisiana drug store.
A member of Britain's House of Lords was found guilty Tuesday of falsifying expenses, marking a new turn in the expense scandal that has rocked Parliament.
Are years of e-mails, text messaging and status updates finally affecting the written word?
The first coffeehouse to open in England, a still-operating café on High Street in Oxford, is more than a place to get a beef and horseradish sandwich, according to author and blogger Steven Berlin Johnson. It represents a turning point in Western culture that helped usher in nearly 500 years of scientific and cultural progress.
War and terrorism besiege countries around the world. Infectious diseases kill millions. Environmental catastrophes threaten nature. Is this a time for a conference titled "And Now the Good News"?
Zahra Shams is a 21-year-old student of law at Ferdowsi University in Mashhad, Iran. She was arrested on May 6, 2010, and held in solitary confinement. She is not a political activist.
Get a kick out of this: Researchers reported Wednesday finding the world's oldest leather shoe in a cave in Armenia.
Question: I'm a 32-year-old mom and the breadwinner in my family. I have no stomach for the stock market, as I feel it is akin to gambling. Can I still have a comfortable retirement without investing in stocks? --Kristen, Oxford, New Jersey
In one chair sits a rural retiree, his financial security shot in the slump, a humble Southerner who's never thought much about politics. In another seat is a born Northerner, an inner-city native, a relative of a civil rights giant. And nearby, circling a table, are an economist, an artist, a onetime John McCain supporter and a long-haired guy who's rich in Woodstock memories.
A key to experiencing Great Britain and Ireland smartly in 2010 is to embrace them not as "ye olde" destinations but as modern ones.
Iran has complained to Britain's Oxford University over a scholarship program in memory of Neda Agha-Soltan, the young woman whose on-camera death during a protests earlier this year made her a global icon of Iranian opposition.
Millions of long-term unemployed Americans and their families are at risk of losing their health insurance, as their eligibility for a 9-month health-premium subsidy expires.
It's prone to cause drama in the online world.
My dad wouldn't let me have a computer because he didn't think it was relevant. I was in college before I actually got one. I think if he knew then what he knows now, I would have had one much earlier.
The more science learns about how men are different from us (right down to the structure of their brains), the more we find ourselves hoping it will finally explain some age-old mysteries. For instance:
In Silicon Valley, it's all about knowing the right people.
Fortune: Mind over matterupdated: Fri Feb 13 2009 14:14:00
In 2004, a 25-year-old Englishman named Daniel Tammet took his seat in an auditorium in Oxford and proceeded to recite the value of pi to 22,514 decimal places. He speaks 12 languages, including Icelandic (which he learned in a week) and Mnti (which he invented). And he's written two books.
CNN's Atika Shubert reports on some brain-teaser questions asked in admissions interviews for Oxford University.
You might expect Oxford and Cambridge universities to ask prospective students to compare the works of Chaucer to Boccaccio or to explain the theory of relativity.
The key to losing weight, Kathy Tandy said, is staying positive and having a support system in place.
Kathy Tandy was so big, she got weighed on the town's cattle scales. It was the only way she could get an accurate measurement of her weight.
Brianne Leckness stares into the camera, a crooked smile spread across her face. It's the epitome of youth -- a young girl with bows in her hair ready to tackle the world. A dog scampers behind her in a blur.
Author Stephen G. Bloom talks about the making of "The Oxford Project."
On the morning of last week's presidential debate, I walked, as I had every day since arriving in Mississippi, along Highway 6 in Batesville.
On our entire way down to Oxford, Mississippi, we've been stopping to encourage people to think about what would happen if, on the night of the first debate, they were somehow allowed to stand up and ask Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama any question they wanted.
CNN deputy political director Paul Steinhauser has the lastest on the first presidential debate.
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said he expects both presidential candidates to be at Friday night's debate, even though Sen. John McCain has said he'll only go if Congress reaches a deal on the bailout.
Can we all just stop the silly nonsense over who is an elitist and whether an "average American" will occupy the White House?
University of Oxford researchers will spend nearly $4 million to study why mankind embraces God
The teen returns to school as head of his mother's party and an obvious target for assassins. Can a collegial atmosphere be preserved?
The appointment of Benazir Bhutto's 19-year-old son, Bilawal, as party chief will rally the party -- if elections go ahead
Every time I hear the words retirement and community strung together, I cringe - for two reasons.
Water levels in flooded central and western England are expected to remain high for the next 24 hours and about 140,000 homes in Gloucestershire could be without water for the next fortnight.
Swollen rivers crested Tuesday across western England, as emergency crews struggled to restore electricity and clean water
A new study of Spanish flu, which killed millions of people in the aftermath of World War One, has provided fresh hope that the spread of a similarly deadly virus could be stopped if it occurred today.
As television heavyweight "Seinfeld" returns to prime time this week, viewers are reminded of the impact sitcoms have on pop-culture psyche -- and their contributions to our vocabulary.
Four men were gored on Thursday, including an American and a Briton, in the third day of the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona, a Navarra regional government spokesman told CNN.
UnitedHealth Group The mostly jobless economic recovery has been hard on health insurers that grow by adding employees to their rolls. Now it's prompting a wave of consolidation. In late April, jus...
Investors will try to digest a series of economic reports early Friday as some might influence where the markets will end for the week.
UnitedHealth is at it again, this time gobbling up Oxford Health Plans just two months after it completed a merger with Mid Atlantic Medical Services.
United Health Group Inc. said Monday it agreed to buy smaller Oxford Health Plans Inc. for about $4.6 billion in cash and stock.
Earnings from two Dow components, a health insurance merger and a look at consumer confidence figures for April could move the markets Tuesday.
Microsoft Corp. may fuel more gains for technology shares and the Dow Jones industrials average on Friday as the software maker reported late Thursday higher quarterly revenue on strength in the personal computer sector.
This fall, the annual ritual of picking a health plan will be more challenging than ever. Set aside, for a moment, people's heightened sense of financial vulnerability since September's attacks on ...
In Oxford, Miss., the spirit of William Faulkner fills the air. In Eugene, Ore., retirees are on a first-name basis with nature. In Tucson, you can enjoy the calming still of the desert without for...
There is something deeply compelling about a comeback story: Lance Armstrong beating back cancer to win the Tour de France, Ali beating back Foreman in Zaire at the ripe age of 32, Tina Turner beat...
Two issues ago, FORTUNE reported that Bill Lerach, king of the shareholder class-action suit, seemed to be reeling from a string of reversals (See "The King of Pain Is Hurting," in the fortune.com ...
Fortune: The Joy of Socksupdated: Mon Apr 03 2000 00:01:00
When two of finance's whitest-shoe firms, J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs, announced recently that every day would be casual-dress day, a bittersweet smile crept across the faces of well-heeled Wall ...
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People don't need an excuse to bash HMOs. Not only have they transformed a simple doctor's visit into a bureaucratic nightmare, but their stocks have blown up as frequently as battle droids in The ...
It was early in May 1997, and Anne Anderson sat in the elegant Manhattan office of Ron Worobel, a manager of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter's Health Science fund, talking stocks. Anderson, whose seriou...
In our March issue, we profiled five shareholders who have taken big losses on Oxford Health Systems, which first plummeted last October. Since our article, the HMO's stock has lost another two-thi...
If Oxford Health Plans is your insurer, you may well be wondering if the firm's well-publicized financial woes of the past year will have a trickle-down effect on your health-care coverage. It's a ...
Don't try to catch a falling knife. That's the Wall Street truism about the dangers of buying declining stocks before they've hit bottom. A perfect example is Oxford Health Plans, which plummeted f...
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Stephen Wiggins, the chairman of Oxford Health Plans, is the man ultimately responsible for one of history's most sensational destructions of shareholder wealth in a single day. Yet he remains a re...
If you were asked to identify the major U.S. companies best positioned for success, you'd probably list Microsoft, Intel, Procter & Gamble, Hewlett-Packard, Merck, GE, and the like. Ask yourself th...
The Manhattan office of acupuncturist and herbalist Phyllis Bloom is serene by the standards of the medical profession. The fragrance of soothing oils and the faint sounds of Chinese music fill the...
Even if you're a fresh-faced 40-year-old, it's not too soon to start dealing with the question of where you will live when you retire. Very soon now, wave upon wave of your fellow boomers are going...
Q. When my family and I landed in Las Vegas last Thanksgiving after flying from Los Angeles, I realized I'd lost our return tickets. The Southwest Airlines representative said we'd have to buy new ...
Bill Sullivan, president of Oxford Health Plans, is in trouble. He's about to make his company's case to some 200 analysts and money managers who own hundreds of millions of dollars of Oxford stock...
Q. I like to dabble in low-priced small-company stocks when I have an extra $1,000 or so. I tried to buy shares when the Boston Beer Co. went public in November, but I was turned down. What do smal...
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Want to be sent L.L. Bean catalogues that peddle only fly-fishing gear? You got it. Need Federal Express to bill you electronically every Thursday? No problem. Like your Levi's custom-made? Coming ...
People don't have ideas, ideas have people, according to a currently fashionable evolutionary view of culture. Ideas, like tunes and styles of dress, are snippets of cultural genetic material--inha...
All of them looked like long shots in the beginning -- prime candidates to join the 52% of small businesses that fail in their first four years. Pat Whitaker, recently divorced, was setting up her ...
Fortune: NOW HEAR THIS updated: Mon Jul 12 1993 00:01:00
-- JOHN AKERS, 58, former head of IBM and a onetime Navy pilot, on his role as a director and investor in a new airline to be launched by Frank Lorenzo, 53, former head of Texas Air: ''I've done ev...
RARELY DO conventional people produce innovation in business or technology. Almost invariably, innovators have a wild gleam in their eye, metaphorically if not literally -- and they can be a real h...
It must have seemed a bright idea at the time. Instead of employing a domestic think tank to peer into America's future, three U.S. companies -- Sun Oil, Bristol-Myers, and American Express -- woul...
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