Ed Graney
Ed Graney is a sports columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, covering a variety of topics and the Las Vegas sports scene.
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Just a guess: When it came time for that little meeting back in December 1991, Boris Yeltsin and the boys from some of the Soviet Union’s 15 republics didn’t sit around a remote hunting lodge and discuss abolishing the 74-year-old state in this order:
BEIJING — The first thing you see when passing through baggage claim at the airport here is Starbucks. The next thing is Kentucky Fried Chicken. They are signs of how for decades now China has embraced Western culture, and how the decision for a Communist Party to eagerly welcome a market economy has transformed the lifestyle of generations.