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...held in today's China to launch everything from[an error occurred while processing this directive] literacy campaigns to property developments. After a splendid meal - with an envelope of cash "for your troubles" - Dan has a revelation: all he needs to continue this charmed life is a fake business card and a nonexistent website. Thus begins Dan's career in journalism - and Geling Yan's shark-fin-sharp satire on cuisine and corruption in contemporary China. The Banquet Bug, which won enthusiastic reviews in the U.S. this summer, is now being published in Britain with greater fanfare and a more...
...Dennett and Harris are almost-scientists (Dennett runs a multidisciplinary scientific-philosophic program), the authors of half a dozen aggressively secular volumes are card carriers: In Moral Minds, Harvard biologist Marc Hauser explores the--nondivine--origins of our sense of right and wrong (September); in Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast (due in January) by self-described "atheist-reductionist-materialist" biologist Lewis Wolpert, religion is one of those impossible things; Victor Stenger, a physicist-astronomer, has a book coming out titled God: The Failed Hypothesis. Meanwhile, Ann Druyan, widow of archskeptical astrophysicist Carl Sagan, has edited Sagan's unpublished lectures...
...very, very smart,” Stone says. “Once she settles down and relaxes a little more...she knows exactly what to do. She is a good defenseman.”JEN BRAWNOne Canadian forward from Surrey, B.C. is the wild card of the bunch. Jen Brawn is lightning fast and has striking stick skills.“I think she has been a huge surprise so far and hopefully continues,” Stone says. “She has done everything we asked her to do and she has come in better than we thought...
...skinny Ortega's antithesis - an arch-conservative Somoza acolyte elected President in 1996 in a wave of nostalgia for the pre-Sandinista days. But as President from 1997 to 2002, Aleman stole tens of millions of dollars from public coffers, including $1.8 million he charged on a government credit card for his wedding in Miami to a woman 22 years his junior. Aleman's embezzlement binge was too much even for Nicaragua's notoriously crooked system: He was convicted and sentenced in 2003 to 20 years in prison. Due to unspecified "health" reasons, he's allowed to serve his time...
...that a black card?’ I turned around and replied, ‘Why yes, but I prefer the term ‘African American Express’.” In his song “Last Call,” Kanye West praises the American Express Centurion Card (also known as the “Black Card”), the invitation only, limitless credit card that has taken the nation’s imagination by storm.While Cambridge may not be Rodeo Drive, Kanye’s influence has extended within Harvard’s ivy-clad...