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...newest effort to shine history's harsh light on the Great Helmsman is Mao: The Unknown Story (Knopf; 814 pages) by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday. Chang is the author of Wild Swans, the gripping and mega-selling 1991 memoir of how three generations of her family survived modern China's upheavals. (She was a Maoist Red Guard in the Cultural Revolution's early stages.) Halliday, Chang's husband, is an author and Russia historian...
Rick Tsai CHIP CZAR Don't tell Tsai, 54, the new CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), that replacing a legend is daunting. Chip mogul Morris Chang, who founded TSMC in 1987 and built it into the world's largest manufacturer of custom-made chips, named Tsai, a 15-year TSMC veteran, his successor. (Chang remains chairman.) Tsai is already forecasting a gaudy 43% quarterly gross-profit margin for the $8 billion company. Tsai knows TSMC inside out, having held nearly every senior position, and has lived up to his strong nickname: Buffalo. --By Joyce Huang/Taipei...
...Japanese might consider doing so, but only if Israel sends a big thank-you note to Germany. Mahbubani seems to assume that economic growth has a value higher than anything else. Maybe that is his belief, but it isn't necessarily shared by all Asians. Jihoon Chang Hong Kong...
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Rowling certainly isn't afraid of sex, as Order of the Phoenix--which had Harry making out with the beautiful, grieving Cho Chang--ably demonstrated. Harry and his friends are now 16, and it would just be weird if Harry didn't have more on his mind than wands and snitches. "Because of the demands of the adventure that Harry is following, he has had less sexual experience than boys of his age might have had," Rowling allows. "But I really wanted my heroes to grow up. Ron's hormones get fuller play in book six." Cue the throaty alto...