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...poet-guerrilla so idealized by "friends of China" had other, more public failings, and Salisbury charts them in detail. Impatient with the slow pace of economic development, Mao launched the catastrophic Great Leap Forward in 1958. The movement forced farmers into communes, abolished private property and set up backyard steel mills to speed China into the industrial age. By 1960 even seed grains were exhausted and millions were starving to death...
Both Ward and Krishnaswamy say they havemanaged to take over the backyard and drive thehumans out of their home--a SimAnt "victory...
...that tragic Sunday morning, Joy had been in the backyard fixing the hair of five-year-old Montez. The twins, Earnestine and Adia, were running around in their bathing suits. Young John, at two the baby of the family, was riding the swing. His dad, a deacon at the Allen Temple Baptist Church, had decided to miss morning services and worship in the afternoon. Reading the newspaper in bed, John focused on one story in particular: an account of a brush fire that had erupted the day before in the nearby hills and that fire officials said had been extinguished...
...spends much of her time reporting and writing as well. And what writing. Carlson's flavorful prose, lucid, tart and funny, is the hallmark of a journalist who sees even the biggest stories in distinctly human terms. "Being a reporter in Washington is like talking across one big backyard fence," she says. "Congress, the White House, the people at the agencies -- they're always trading stories with each other and with the press...
...those commonly in the area would have been able to pull this off. While I hope it was not done by members of our community, I am not naive enough to think it impossible. Anti-Semitism is not limited to Nazis and Klansmen; it exists literally in our own backyard...