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Hwang's play was based on the incredible-but-true story of a French diplomatic attache in Beijing who conducted a 17-year sexual affair with a Chinese spy posing as an opera singer and never suspected that the lady was a man. (According to Liaison, Joyce Wadler's fascinating...
But right now, it's the video-game designers who have the electronic ball. The rapid advance of technology in the past decade has given them a set of tools with almost unimaginable power: high-speed computer-graphics chips that can create millions of bright colors and flash them on...
Selling sports stuff to people who don't need any more of it involves positioning your product as close as possible to the intersection of two powerful psychosocial forces. One is the Vector of Incompetence: if you can't hit a decent forehand or chip shot or jog half a...
The other illusion to die in Somalia has to do with the United Nations. The U.N. has become the all-purpose ambulance service for bleeding countries. From Cambodia to Bosnia, blue hats have been sent not only to observe an already existing peace as in cold war days but also...
But this post-cold war vision of the U.N. as the new major player on the block is a hallucination. Why? Because the U.N. is a fiction. Yes, it has a Secretary-General, a bureaucracy and a building. But it has no army, no taxing authority, no independent will. Because...