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...writer's original articles; too much indulgence in personal reminiscence, and the result can be cloying and sentimental. But in Chasing the Dragon: A Veteran Journalist's Firsthand Account of the 1949 Chinese Revolution, Roy Rowan gets the ingredients just right, providing an account that has both factual heft and robust flavor...
...story illustrates much about the man Indonesians overwhelmingly chose to lead them: his undoubted intellectual heft?Yudhoyono's personal library contains 13,000 volumes?and a discipline that allowed him to finish and defend a doctoral thesis in the middle of a presidential campaign. Those were qualities Yudhoyono downplayed on the stump, where he touted a decisiveness honed through a 29-year military career. Unlike the incumbent President Megawati Sukarnoputri, Yudhoyono told voters, he wouldn't shy from tough decisions to tackle the country's social and economic woes...
...rate of success in using that heft to neutralize the Crimson front seven should dictate the pace of the Holy Cross offense. If Harvard’s linemen, anchored by veteran defensive tackles Matt McBurney and Coesen Ngwun, should gain the upperhand, as they did last year, the Crusaders will likely face a mounting deficit and need to fall back on a frantic—and rarely effective—pass-always offense. The Crimson front four, tipping the scales at 252 lbs., on average—a full 35 lbs. lighter than their adversaries—will rely...
...eight people, eight boats, three dogs and one monkey on a leash - together they assemble on a narrow island in the Seine to enjoy a summer?s day and the spectacle of one another. What?s wrong with this picture? From a distance some of the figures have the heft and stability of Mesopotamian statuary. But step closer, and they dissolve into a force field of bristling molecules. Step back again, and they also appear like paper cutouts, flat and stiff. Are they enjoying themselves or just impersonating themselves? It won?t do to ask the monumental couple...
...movie axioms don't translate to real life, but this one does. As a movie, The Day After Tomorrow is your classic computer-generated cinematic confection, only the bad guy isn't an alien or a giant lizard, it's global warming. That gives Tomorrow a lot more political heft than your average popcorn movie; and left-leaning political activists, Al Gore and Al Franken among them, are rallying around the film as a consciousness-raising tool. But wait a minute: that puts them in bed with Fox, the studio that produced the movie--Fox, as in right-leaning...