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...then as a bush farmer in Rhodesia, with limited success. Lessing bridled at their strict Edwardian mores and left school at 13 - that was the end of her formal education, although she continued to read voraciously. She left home at 15, moved to England and became associated with the Communist movement. Her writing career began in earnest in 1950 with her first novel, The Grass Is Singing...
...just don't want him misused. He can be a universal person, but respect the image.' ALEIDA GUEVARA MARCH, daughter of communist icon Che Guevara, on asking companies to stop capitalizing on her father's image - which has been plastered on key chains, vodka and underwear - 40 years after his death
...Poles feel that change was forced on them by corrupt, distant and overeducated leaders. "There is a huge tradition in Poland of the masses grumbling about the nobility," says one Western diplomat. "The PIS is reaching out to all those people who have not been recognized by the post-communist élites...
...visit has certainly prompted widespread commentary in Poland. Gazeta Wyborcza editor and celebrated anti-communist dissident Adam Michnik penned this birthday greeting: "Grass teaches how to love freedom and truth or, simply put, life, how to love people how to love literature, he can do it, and we love...
About once a month, a stream of black sedans with heavily tinted windows snakes through the gates of Zhongnanhai, the sprawling headquarters of the Chinese Communist Party, which occupies the southwestern corner of Beijing's Forbidden City. The limousines bear the 22 members of the party's Political Bureau, or Politburo. In legend, Communist Party meetings are endless, but since 2002, when Hu Jintao became General Secretary of the party (he became President of China the next year), Politburo sessions have been quite brisk. Typically, they are over by lunchtime, and then two top academics are ushered in to brief...