Opponents charge that the move is an attempt to punish Indonesia's central bank for closing financial institutions that were pets of Suharto's rapacious children and friends.
That skyline also attests to Hong Kong's rapacious appetite for the new: Few examples of traditional Chinese or more recent colonial architecture stand outside of museums, while contemporary works by Norman Foster and I.
To date, this hopeful comparison has fallen down because Russians lack that heritage of civic faith that tinged the mind of even the most rapacious of America's tycoons.
