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...Vonnegut was born Indianapolis in 1922, the son of an architect. His early life shows the kind of aimless lateral peregrinations of someone who was in the process of inventing a kind of person that hadn't really existed before. He put in a mediocre stint at Cornell before enlisting in the army in 1942, in the teeth of World War II. Shortly afterward - and within a year of each other - two events occurred that would prove to be formative for Vonnegut. In 1944, on Mother's Day, he came home on leave to discover that his mother, an unsuccessful...
Zhou Fukuan, a cheerful 32-year-old who runs the DVD stand across the street from my old Shanghai apartment, just smiles when I tell him that the U.S. has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) over China's rampant infringement of intellectual-property rights. "I hadn't heard that," he says, "but this sort of thing happens a lot-the government says they'll crack down on [piracy]. It usually lasts a few days, and then...
...believe the Chinese leadership cares that much. Maybe, in time, a WTO case will change that, but Zhou, for one, doesn't believe it. "Don't worry, I'll still be here," he says, and with a smile asks if I had The Last King of Scotland. Actually, I hadn't. "Five RMB," he said. Sold...
...over intellectual property infringement. I've known Zhou for nearly two years. He runs the DVD stand across the street from the apartment building I used to live in here in Shanghai, and over that time I've literally bought a couple of hundred pirated movies from him. "I hadn't heard that," he said of the U.S.'s WTO suit, "but this sort of thing happens a lot - the government says they'll crack down on [piracy]. It usually lasts a few days and then ... " He didn't need to finish the sentence. And then, nothing...
...however, say that "for as long as I've been around, I thought the Class Day speakers were supposed to be funny, so when I found out that they hadn't always been funny, I thought that this was our chance to bring in somebody that means something...