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...encyclopedic Who's Who of troublemakers that is engagingly anecdotal, often surprising and deeply insightful. Readers already acquainted with China's political topography will find fresh profiles of familiar figures who are often lost in the glaring limelight that follows them?Wei, Wang Dan, Dai Qing, Fang Lizhi and Liu Binyan. But Buruma also introduces characters less well-known in the English-speaking world...
...finish their Happy Meals. On Dec. 16, a bomb jolted through the fast-food joint, sending patrons and Big Macs flying. The explosion killed two, injured 27 and stunned the entire city. "Things like this are supposed to happen in dangerous places, like the Middle East," says Liu Wei, a cashier who works in the same shopping complex as the town's only McDonald's. "I never thought it would happen in China...
...LIU CHUANZHI Making computers was not the first step on Liu Chuanzhi's long march to success, but it may well be the one that matters most. Liu, 57, survived China's brutal Cultural Revolution and rode the winds of reform to a government concession distributing IBM PCs in the late 1980s. Then he persuaded the government to let him build PCs. He's CEO of LEGEND COMPUTER, the most profitable PC maker in a market in which sales will grow 25% this year. Liu says he learned it all from Hewlett-Packard and IBM, but he aims to best...
...Liu said that because of the time contraint, this kind of contest is “interesting, because it is entirely different from the normal way you learn computing...
...three members of the team, computer science concentrators Brendan D. Connell ’02, Yuen-Jong Liu ’04 and Vladimir S. Novakovski ’05, were selected in an October contest of the Harvard Computing Contest Club which was open to the entire Harvard community...