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...class presented Team Yao with a 500-page report about the core values of the 400 million urban Chinese consumers on whom they think Yao's marketers should focus. These Chinese, when asked which values were most important to them, "used words like hardworking, self-confidence, respect, talent, heroism and lightheartedness," says Sanders. Head to head, Yao outpolled all other Chinese celebrities on those qualities. "Yao was at the top--China's most popular celebrity...
...book, however-Chiune: In Search of Sugihara, by Boston University sociology and religion professor Hillel Levine-has become a touchstone for controversy. Part biography, part spiritual quest, Chiune ponders the way history forces an ordinary man to make extraordinary choices. Levine sees heroism in Sugihara's defiant issuance of visas, yet his version of Sugihara remains a complex and flawed creature-a man with a weakness for women and wine, and whose job included spying on Russia...
...year-old widow, Yukiko, is the suit's plaintiff of record, but the case's true motivator is Katsumasa Watanabe, the mastermind behind Japan's burgeoning Sugihara-deification industry. He owns Taisho Shuppan, a small Tokyo publisher that produces books on only two subjects: railway history and Sugihara's heroism. Watanabe says he was "blown away that such a man existed in Japan," after happening upon a TV documentary about Sugihara in 1991. Watanabe immediately sought out Yukiko Sugihara and published her two memoirs along with three biographies of her late husband. These days, Watanabe leads a band of researchers...
...look back in hindsight, 54 years later, and think, “if only we had elected Thurmond in 1948.” This Governor lives by the seat of his pants—indeed, it was his heroism at Normandy that did the Krauts in. Thurmond will not be around forever. Voting for him means that one day, your white children will live safe in the knowledge that they can one day play first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers, without any competition from the Negro...
...back was harder to deny, especially after near-fatal back surgery in 1954, when he was a Senator too much in the public eye to disappear for the eight months he needed to recover. But the back was absorbed into his legend, laid to football injuries and his indisputable heroism during World War II, explanations that merely buffed the chrome of J.F.K.'s image...