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Both Mochtar Riady , born to immigrant Chinese parents in Java , and his sons , James and Stephen , have extensive business and personal networks in the USA , Hong Kong and mainland China , where the Lippo Group is also investing in the building of retail , commercial , tourist and city developments , if not yet on the same scale as in Jakarta ( see Backman 1999 for a more critical perspective ) . A lot of other authors would have continually mugged the reader with significance , turning the book into a very depressing and nasty production relieved only by the implied exhortation that you ought to be enjoying this message because it 's good for you . By way of contrast , President Suharto 's New Order politics required a spatial and political reorganisation of Jakarta even as it remained the prime site of the nation-state developmentalist project imaginary : Suharto 's regime , " officially named the New Order , legitimized itself by ' decapitating ' the supreme leader , disembodying the single collective body of Sukarno and turning the revolutionary street into a space of discipline and fear . They ranged from a theoretical paper by Alejandro Portes on the role of the urban informal sector in the world-economy , a series of chapters about various national and regional dynamics , an historical image of the changing world urban hierarchy over the past 1,200 years by Christopher Chase-Dunn , a chapter on women and cities in the world-system by Kathryn Ward , an early essay on capital mobility and labor migration by Saskia Sassen that prefigured her later work on global cities , to various discussions of quantitative methodology and analysis , including one on core-periphery urban patterns by Glenn Firebaugh ( whose later high-profile attacks against this very genera of cross-national world-system research will be discussed below ) . Jimmy , you might be right about Sanders when it comes to him on the goal line , but remember this ; Barry had at least 3 more GOOD seasons left in him when he left the game . My main point is that many such effects will be triggered , that most of them are now unforeseeable , and that this will turn the intellectual and political landscape topsy-turvy . For Leyland , Jeckyll turned the dining room at Prince 's Gate into a porcelain cabinet of the sort used to display royal and aristocratic collections since the seventeenth century . When I was a kid hitchhiking on the road the left had a sense of humor and the right did n't , but now it 's our guys who do n't have a sense of humor , which is sad . A float switch turns the pump on and off when filling the stock tank . " If the new Congress really wants to support our troops , it should start by spending a few more pennies on the ones who have already fought and come home . But why go to all the trouble to turn the coal into gas if all you are going to do is burn it ? And for anyone with Web savvy , downloading music is as routine a practice as turning the radio on was for their baby-boomer parents .