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...punching out photographers ever since the camera was invented." That may be so, but it is unlikely that Mathew Brady taunted Abe Lincoln about his crazy wife. And only recently have the stars had to contend with the intrusive video camera--and the insatiable tabloid shows, always on the lookout for juicy footage of celebrities misbehaving...
Dependencies and increasing returns are no guarantee of long-term survival, however, and nobody knows that better than Gates. He and his lieutenants are always on the lookout for the technological breakthrough that could permit some smaller, scrappier competitor to do to Microsoft what Microsoft has done to everyone else. In the past the company was content to let others lead the way-into online services, for example-waiting until there was a clear market opportunity before swooping in. Now Microsoft is starting to do its own basic research, spending $600 million a year trying to build computer systems that...
...democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. If a similar public revulsion is building up again, then failing to pursue an anticorruption drive could make the country more difficult to govern, for Jiang or anyone else. The regime certainly seems nervous these days. Police line Beijing's main avenues, on the lookout for any potential unrest. One theory about the low-key treatment of Chen Yun's death is that it may be a trial run for the day Deng dies. Says a Chinese analyst: "If they manage to avoid a funeral for Chen, they might be able to do the same...
Jonathan Hullah is from Sioux Lookout which, he tells us, lies "nearly 2000 miles northwest of Toronto." Although this sounds to an American like code for the North Pole, the narrative stays in the township long enough to give the young Hullah a youthful bout with scarlet fever (childhood disease is a favorite repeated trope of Davies), the friendship of an Indian healer and wise woman named Mrs. Smoke (who saves him with neither scalpel nor the Merck Manual) and a lifelong interest in medicine, especially non-traditional medicine...
...Cunning Man does not, however, purport to be Hullah's chronological autobiography, and does not move as a blow-by-blow account from Sioux Lookout to the moment Hullah takes up pen and begins to write...