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...Murakami's first novel, Hear the Wind Sing - with its title taken from a Truman Capote short story and featuring Beach Boys lyrics on the back cover - would be published within a year of his revelation. That such a moment came while watching an American athlete play an imported game is entirely in keeping with a man whose work - at least in its early stages - was not shaped by Japanese literature, but by the secondhand foreign paperbacks he read growing up near the port of Kobe, and the jazz and rock he absorbed as a student in Tokyo. Long before...
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...hard on the children because they're looked at and watched everywhere." For more than 20 years, Graham's good friends George H.W. and Barbara Bush invited him and his wife every summer to Kennebunkport, Maine. They were very grateful when he took a walk on the beach one day in 1985 with their eldest son. George W. Bush said that encounter put him on a path to a new relationship with Jesus and "planted a mustard seed" in his soul. But a few years later, he got into an argument with his mother about who exactly could and could...
...assassinated legislators from the anti-Syrian ruling coalition of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora. And the government comfortably won one of those seats - the one formerly occupied by the late Walid Eido, a Sunni member of parliament who was killed in June by a bomb set next to his favorite beach club. But holding Eido's seat wasn't much of a challenge: He had represented a strong Sunni Muslim district in West Beirut where support for Siniora is strong. The bombshell came in the majority Christian district known as the Metn in the mountains just north of Beirut: There, former...
...rare exception is the semiannual ritual staged by Drobny Global Advisors, a boutique research firm based in Manhattan Beach, Calif., run by two guys named Drobny--Andres and Steven--who are related only by the business they are in. The Drobnys' most recent conference attracted more than 100 macro hedge fund managers--people who bet on megatrends. They descended on the Wynn Las Vegas resort for three days of hard trading talk and, of course, a bit of hard playing...