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...secret of a successful politician: If you manipulate Them (the voters, the lobbyists, your colleagues) suavely enough, they'll think they're getting massaged. On TV, of course, J.R. was a villain, the snake with a smile. Charlie, dipping into the same bag of tricks, is a hero...
...Women's League--is testament to the anger the aloof Mbeki arouses in the party's rank and file. At the ANC conference, delegates booed him and drowned out his allies with songs supporting Zuma, whose rejection by South Africa's élite has made him a hero to the poor. The constitution prevents Mbeki from running for re-election, but Zuma will also be barred if he is convicted of corruption. That means South Africa's leadership could hinge on whether its new top politician is on his way to the presidency or to jail...
...copy of the diaries to them. What happened next surprised almost everyone. Published in Vietnam in mid-2005, the war diaries became a runaway hit, selling some 430,000 copies in a country where few books have a print run greater than 5,000. Tram herself became a national hero, with hundreds of people visiting her grave site and a hospital named after her. For the younger generation of Vietnamese (nearly 60% of the population was born after the war's end in 1975), Tram's ardent accounts of bloody conflict offer a vivid connection to a time their parents...
...Decades later, the stirred memory of that photo suggested the plot of Qiu's Red Mandarin Dress, the fifth and latest of his popular, Shanghai-set Inspector Chen detective novels. This time, Qiu's hero, a cop and poet, is on the trail of a serial killer who dresses his female victims in tailored qipao dresses - a macabre gesture freighted with political meaning. As in the previous books, the investigation leads Inspector Chen to a brutal legacy from the past, for even the most vicious of Qiu's criminals are victims of China's bloody history. So, incidentally, are many...
...Perhaps reflecting his creator's donnish temperament, Inspector Chen is somewhat ambivalent about the door-knocking and petty politicking that go along with police work. In the course of his investigations, Qiu's hero frequently cites literary theory or quotes Tang dynasty poetry. Chen is less a cop moonlighting as a poet than a poet daylighting...