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...Although these best friends soon have to tote hods of excrement up and down twisting Phoenix Mountain trails and mine coal from primitive pits, theirs is not just another grim and baleful tale of forced labor. For these pals are merry pranksters at heart whose spirits never falter. At their first meeting with the village headman, an ex-opium farmer turned communist cadre, the narrator's violin is adjudged a stupid and bourgeois city toy. To prove differently he plays a Mozart sonata. "What's it called?" challenges the headman. Mozart Is Thinking of Chairman Mao is Luo's politically...
...biggest stock markets - for four days. The prices of oil, gold and bonds were sent soaring. The London FTSE, the Paris CAC and the German DAX all took double-digit losses in the first few days. By the end of September the news crossing the wires was grim and grimmer: corporate profits and consumer sentiment plummeting, unemployment shooting upward...
...strikes to put down the last sparks of resistance by Taliban prisoners who had seized weapons and taken over the Qalai Janghi fort? The horrors of this and another fierce fight in the country's far south at Takhta Pul, near Kandahar, last week showed the risks and grim moral compromises inherent in their trade, at least when it comes to the time-honoured task of 'setting the East ablaze' by working with warlords and their irregular armies...
...post-doctoral fellow in a lab that shares space and equipment with Wiley’s lab described the atmosphere there as “grim...
...Meanwhile, as academics and politicians debate the merits and morality of the latest homeland security measures, Arab-American residents of eastern Michigan, Florida and the Dallas area are already facing the grim realities of wartime. Across the country, some 5,000 young men who are residents of and recent immigrants from Middle Eastern countries will receive either a letter or a personal visit from officials "asking" for any information on the al-Qaeda network or Osama bin Laden. In eastern Michigan, where as many as 560 men will be questioned, a string of legal challenges from local Arab community leaders...