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Luce was born in 1898 in Tengchow (now P'eng-lai), China, where his father--a Presbyterian minister and missionary--headed a small college for Chinese converts to Christianity. Harry spent his entire childhood in China, except for one or two trips to visit relatives in the U.S. Like most missionary families, the Luces lived not among the Chinese but inside walled compounds, alongside other American and English clergy. The contrast between the ordered world of the missionary community and the harsh social and physical landscape outside it reinforced the assumptions driving the missionary project in China: the unquestioned belief...
...Lai Massacre...
Uncovering dirt is the job that made Hersh's name. He won the Pulitzer in 1970 for exposing the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. Later he detailed the CIA campaign of domestic spying against Americans. He gained a best seller and a National Book Critics Circle Award with The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House. Now comes the book he hopes will be the capstone of his career. His publisher, Little, Brown--a subsidiary of Time Inc., the publisher of this magazine--is rolling out a sizable first printing of 350,000 copies. Hersh is bracing...
Underlining that fact, one of the company's public relations videos highlights endorsements from Jiang, Vice Premier Zhu Rongji and Shanghai mayor Xu Kuangdi. SIHL's chairman, Cai Lai Xing, 55, an economist, helped prepare Shanghai's economic blueprint for the 21st century, and managing director Zhuo Fu Min, 45, was involved in reforming the city's state-owned enterprises. Zhuo nonetheless downplays political connections as the key to the company's success. Says he: "SIHL makes investments based purely on business...
Gore has had 16 months to get his facts straight but is still grasping for an acceptable explanation for his stumble into the Hsi Lai Temple in Southern California. First he understood the temple event to be "community outreach," and later he corrected his recollection to say he recognized it as having some in-reach too--calling it "finance related." Gore aides last week clumsily amended the official version yet again, saying Gore understood it to involve "donor maintenance," presumably the care and feeding of fat cats. Yet the aides also produced internal memos showing that many on the Vice...