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...third day, I had a bowl of Fu Manchu stew, a plate of vegetable tempura, another taco, and a tall cup of fruit salad...
...corporate life-style that encourages worker loyalty and innovation. The company built a $1 million sports complex at its headquarters that is used by two-thirds of the staff members. They can stretch their muscles on Nautilus body-building equipment, take lessons in aerobic dancing and Kung Fu and then relax in a Jacuzzi or a tanning parlor...
When Ren Wanding [head of the Chinese Human Rights League], Wei Jingsheng, Fu Yuehua, Chen Lu, Zhang Wenhe and others were arrested in March 1979, the event was followed closely by the Chinese and foreign press. Why this concern about the fate of a few ordinary Chinese citizens? It is because the arrests had created a cold March wind that was blowing across the Chinese political horizon...
...residents of the hamlet of Baan Nabua, 30 miles south of the Mekong River center of Nakhon Phanom, stop all work and open their stilted houses to visitors for a celebration. Government officials gather for a feast and an all-night spectacle that features classical Thai dancing and Kung Fu movies. The holiday is called the Stop the Gunfire Festival: it commemorates the government's success in quelling a Communist insurgency that once infested most of Thailand's 16 northeastern provinces. This year the eight-man band that played popular tunes at Baan Nabua was composed entirely...
...locale is Chicago, but no Chicago known to man. The central character, Shlink, a Malaysian lumber dealer, looks like an angular Dr. Fu Manchu. Shlink (Seth Allen) offers to buy a library clerk's opinion of a mystery thriller. The clerk, a romantic idealist named George Garga (Don Scardino), offers to sell Rimbaud's critique, but proudly announces that his own cannot be bought...