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...Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalist government to flee to the island of Taiwan in 1949, used to say he could wait 100 years to bring the province back into the fold. Today's men in Beijing are less patient, perhaps sensing that Taiwan is growing stronger and more distant all the time. Last week, in a formal speech at the Great Hall of the People, Premier Li Peng lectured the citizens of the island: No matter how they might choose their President, "they cannot change the fact that Taiwan is part of China and its leaders are only leaders...
Meanwhile, two states with stockpiles--Kentucky and Indiana--have effectively banned incineration by requiring proof that it will have no long-term health or environmental consequences. The Federal Government says any such study would take 30 years. And no one is enthusiastic about moving the weapons to distant incineration sites, which poses a different set of risks. "Although we in Alabama are willing to destroy our own stockpile, we are absolutely opposed to other people sending their chemical weapons into our state," says Democratic Representative Glen Browder, whose district is slated to be the site of the nation's third...
TYPE Widowed Father CHARACTERISTICS Tragic, decent, loves but is distant from child EXAMPLES A LITTLE PRINCESS: Liam Cunningham CASPER: Bill Pullman...
...where the author seems to have had a fit of graphomania. Characters and events are propelled by a distinctive prose that frequently mixes teenage trash talk and intellectual abstraction, a Bevis-and-Egghead style that should set older folk aback and college kids abuzz." Set in a not-so-distant future where New England has been declared a toxic waste dump, the novel is a sprawling examination of annihilating diversions in an age of addictive entertainment. "'Infinite Jest' hurls its maximalist bulk, flamboyant style and unbuttoned erudition at all that might be considered fashionable posturing. Cool, it tells...
...eternity; at my back was always a bleak, black wind." The narrator and title figure is Xuela Claudette Richardson, 70, a native of Dominica, by ancestry a mix of Carib, African and Scot, by emotional makeup surely part Kincaid. Since she has no mother (her father is dutiful but distant; in any case men are minor planets in the author's cosmology), she reinvents herself--as did Kincaid--and makes her way in the world by allying with various men, eventually marrying a decent, not very energetic white doctor, "a man trained to heal the sick, and in this...