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...said about all happy families being alike? Ah, but Mike and Paula have a secret ... Swift is an enigma himself. London-born, Cambridge-taught, married with no children, he doesn't talk much about his methods or motives. He did, however, pursue a Ph.D. in Victorian literature, which may explain the handcrafted antique seriousness of his best work. That would include 1983's Waterland, a sweeping, impressively detailed family saga of fortune and folly. Swift's version was watered down into a movie with Jeremy Irons and Ethan Hawke, but the novel made the short list for the Booker Prize...
...world-tales of human struggle and environmental destruction within the Middle Kingdom, or, elsewhere, of entire steel factories being crated up and shipped to the mainland along with tens of thousands of jobs. But a second broad classification of China books is now emerging. These attempt to explain what countries and individuals can do, or ought to do, in reaction to China's cataclysmic change...
...Mann, a former Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, and The Writing on the Wall, by British journalist Will Hutton. The two volumes are both nominally about China, but their aims are to influence policy in the West. Their subtitles make that much clearer: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression gets second billing on Mann's book, while Hutton's subtitle is Why We Must Embrace China as a Partner or Face It as an Enemy...
...group exited the theater, Daisey asked them to stay behind to explain their behavior, calling them “cowards...
...could feel safe," admits party member Arnaud Sanchez, 20. That forced many Socialist voters to "hold their nose," as Sanchez puts it, and vote for Chirac to ensure the defeat of the anti-immigration Le Pen. "I was ashamed to go abroad and have to explain to people how someone like Le Pen could get that far - meanwhile, the urgency to deny Le Pen meant France got a default president in Chirac," says Sanchez. "Thank goodness this time it's different...