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...Britain bombarded the Chinese coast. He spoke as if it were I who had led the British fleet up the Pearl River. He described Shell as a multinational firm and said that Lenin had stated that such companies were the worst enemies of socialism. He turned to my family background, telling the audience that I was the descendant of a big landlord family, that my father was a senior official of the pre-Kuomintang government. He said that I went to England and was trained by the British to be ''a faithful running dog'' in one of their universities...
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...Sheikh, he's cautiously optimistic. Business is brisk. And he takes heart from Gedi's background as a promoter of the private sector. But he's also decided to limit his time in Mogadishu to two or three years. His experiences, he says, have given him a brand new plan: "Law school...
...proportion of whites, seemed an auspicious testing ground. Relations between the 569,000 whites, 6 million blacks, 675,000 Indians and 95,000 mixed-raced coloreds are better than in South Africa's three other provinces. A majority of Natal's whites are of British background and are generally regarded as more liberal on racial issues than Dutch-descended Afrikaners. Moreover, many whites respect the Zulus for their strong tribal loyalty, resourcefulness and reputation as fierce warriors. Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, who would probably be the Prime Minister in a racially mixed government, is popular with many whites because...
...Chekhov meant Uncle Vanya to be seen as a comedy. Its subjects include the dissolution of two marriages, the estrangements of a father from a daughter and of another father from his sons, the terminal cancer of one offstage character and the accidental death of another. Simon views the background of the play as "a war, a household war." Yet the play looks at grim events with a tempered optimism, a belief not so much in happy endings as in the renewable dignity of human beings. Simon, always generous to his characters, seeks the utmost in forgiveness for them here...