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...staid university town, he is tipped off that the police are coming to arrest him as a counterrevolutionary. He flees, hawking his Phoenix bike to a fruit vendor for some apricots and enough change to buy a train ticket to Nanjing. From there, Jian plans to board an express train heading south to Guangzhou, then sneak into Hong Kong and eventually make it to another country. In the novel's final scene, Jian incinerates his student identity card and crops his hair. We never do know if he gets out of China...
...American Express sued MasterCard and Visa in 2004, alleging that you tried to keep it out of the credit-card business. Visa settled for up to $2.25 billion. Does that put more pressure...
...remember Ringo. He was the comical one in the Beatles, lovable but expendable. He hitched a ride on the Lennon-McCartney express. Perhaps you believed he'd been knighted like Sir Paul. Maybe you assumed he'd retired. In fact, almost everything you think you know about Ringo is wrong, except that he's endearing. Lean and boisterous in tight pants, T shirt, sneakers and funky sunglasses, he could be mistaken for a 50-something in the first throes of an affair with a younger woman. It is true that Ringo is enraptured by a younger woman...
...Cruise is entitled to his opinions, but if he is going to express them publicly, he might care to do so with a bit more clarity. Was he implying that chattel slavery in his own country in the 1860s and the fascism that engulfed Europe in the 1930s were not worth being "solved" with a war? James Lehmann, NYON, SWITZERLAND...
...professor Michael O. Rabin. “They are going to be a part of the history of our faculty, part of the history of Harvard, and that would mean that this vote implicitly verifies the fact that there were attacks on people, in this case, who wanted to express controversial opinions on the Israeli-Palestine issues.” Matory said that the meeting served his intentions “very well” by providing a forum for an open discussion of free speech. The meeting was bogged down by countless amendments, vote counts, and quibbles over nitty...