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...Cung is fourth generation on this island. She's a Confucianist, she says, and counts among her friends numerous Bugis and Buton people originally from Sulawesi. She lives now in the house she shared with her husband until he died a decade ago. It's big and sturdy, all faded wood except for the stone porch. She still grows pineapples and cassavas out back; she may be old but she has to work or she feels weak. Her husband, Ji Chiu, was first generation. He came to work the tin mines, a "sold piglet," as they were called, since they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Admiral's Isles | 7/20/2001 | See Source »

...words to his songs are predictablyself-absorbed and audacious. On the first track,"My Name is Prince," it's the same old Princetalking: "In the beginning God made the sea/ Buton the 7th day He made...

Author: By Danielle A. Phillip, | Title: Princely Smut | 10/29/1992 | See Source »

...ideological outlooksufficiently parochial to question hisidentification with the world-wide scientificcommunity," and that Huntington lacks competencein "matters epistemological." As Singer suggests,one can leave aside the claim made by Putnam inhis PS article, that Huntington is"avowedly patriotic." The quality of scientificdoings does not depend on their being "patriotic" buton the factual documentation and accuracy.Huntington gives evidence that he confuses thetwo. For instance, when writing about TheSoldier and the State (one of the books uponwhich his reputation as a political scientist isbased), and its reception in the 1970s, he states:"Some indications of this trend in the directionof a more...

Author: By Serge Lang, | Title: On a Recent Non-Election to the NAS | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

...each chapter, as in Mathematics for the Million, Hogben attaches quizzes for the conscientious reader, who is expected to find English equivalents for endless lists of Latin and Greek words and phrases and to translate from a 1,000-year-old English Gospel ("He dysegath, hwa maeg sinna forgifan buton God ana?"*)-all without any answers from Hogben...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Passport to Languages | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

...bombing mission was long and risky: a 2,100-mile flight to hit the Jap-held nickel port of Pombelaa on Buton Island. Eleven men rode to battle in the big 6-24 Liberator bomber "Golden Gator," but only four lived to see their North Australian base again. Navigator Lieut. Robert Jones had tears in his eyes as he told Chicago Tribune Correspondent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEN AT WAR: Seven Died | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

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