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Such logic has repeatedly been challenged during the convulsions that have shaken China in this century. No one has proved more adept than Deng in staging tactical retreats, sometimes going so far as to make public confessions of error in which he almost certainly did not believe. He is, moreover, a dedicated Communist who does not question, publicly at least, the basic tenets of Marxism-Leninism. Yet in his patient but dogged style, Deng has continually tested the doctrine's outer limits. Says Rong Yiren, chairman of the China International Trust and Investment Corporation: "He is convinced that the basic...
...pros, smarting from Geldof s high visibility and hyperactivity, have had harsh words. By their protective reckoning, Geldof and his Aid outfit are good at grabbing attention, slow on detail work and chary of bailing out other agencies. "I'm not an accountant," huffs Geldof, who is nevertheless adept at running down stats, from the average number of berries constituting the daily diet of a starving Sudanese (eight) to the number of Live Aid and Band Aid trucks ferrying supplies across Africa (200) to the varieties of relief (medicine, bridges, powdered milk) purchased by Live...
...Indian War of the 1750s and '60s. From the irregulars under Francis Marion (the "Swamp Fox"), who harassed the British in the Revolutionary War, to Brigadier General Frank Merrill's Marauders, who bedeviled the Japanese in Burma during World War II, old-time American fighting men often proved adept at unconventional warfare...
...election was inspiring, but the good vibrations have long since evaporated. In recent months the intelligence community has concluded that the Iraqi insurgency is more coherent than previously supposed-with a collegial, if not strictly defined, leadership network, reliable funding sources and Sunni fighters far more adept than the nine-week wonders being produced for the new government by U.S. trainers. There is a growing fear that the myopia of the current Shi'ite leadership in Iraq will soon provoke a full-scale Sunni rebellion and civil war. Last week's announcement that armed Shi'ite and Kurdish militias would...
...marauders run wild in the streets. The structure of Lloyd Parry's book, which seems to lack much new research, leans too heavily on a chronological, riot-by-riot retelling of his experience. But his elegant, understated prose preserves a bubble of sanity amid the madness; he's particularly adept at capturing the moments when history is about to be made, as when he waits with 30,000 student protesters for the vacillating Suharto to finally surrender power. "In a century of such changes in countries all over the world, this was the last time that it would happen. Such...