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...await the next century. Two of the novel's main characters survive to sample the new age. The boy who first led Fairley into town is an important government minister at the time of World War I. His cousin is a nun and natural scientist whose correspondence with a German bee expert arouses suspicions that she is a foreign agent. With this lovely bit of linkage, Malouf closes a remarkably original book: a lyric history that is also a national contra-epic...
...assistant in Israel, ''is his work. He enjoys bringing these things together -- which is why he is still doing it. He doesn't need the money.'' Even if he does not watch movies himself, the Eisenberg story could easily inspire one. It would tell the tale of a penniless German Jew who lands in Japan during World War II, goes into business, builds a trading empire in Asia and becomes one of the world's richest men. In 1938, when Eisenberg was 17, his parents, two brothers and a sister left their home in Munich and fled to Shanghai, where...
...same revenues. One of Eisenberg's trade secrets, his associates say, is his extraordinary mind. ''The guy was never in a school of business or anything like that,'' says one ex-staff member. ''He did everything himself. He's exceptionally clever and has an amazing memory.'' Eisenberg speaks fluent German, Japanese, Yiddish and European-inflected English. Eisenberg has also made a point of hiring executives with a record of achievement, people who are already powerful. Among his current employees is Moshe Arens, the former Defense and Foreign Minister. In the past he has employed Ilan Tehila, the former military adviser...
...publicly talk about temporal goals. Last week al-Maliki even declared a preference for Obama's 16-month redeployment plan - though his spokesman subsequently issued a vague, none-too-convincing clarification stating that the Prime Minister had been misunderstood. In response to al-Maliki's controversial statement to the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel, McCain's campaign did its best to salvage the situation, declaring that these new discussions about withdrawal were in fact a victory for McCain's strategy, not a sign of weakness - or worse, an endorsement of his opponent's position, as Obama's campaign was quick...
...Saturday, the Prime Minister jolted Washington when a German magazine, Der Spiegel, published comments from an interview in which he seemed to back the Democratic candidate's call for a 16-month timetable. Der Spiegel quoted Maliki as saying "U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right time frame for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes." But the comments came a day after Maliki and the White House agreed more vaguely to negotiate a "time horizon" for a continued U.S. troop presence in the country, and Sunday saw the Prime...