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...year career at the state department, Donald W. Keyser became known as a master of the diplomatic cable. "He is without doubt the fastest and most impressive drafter of telegrams and memos I have ever dealt with," says Winston Lord, the former U.S. ambassador to China for whom Keyser worked in Beijing during the late 1980s. But on Sept. 1, 2003, Keyser whipped off a note that would shatter his professional reputation. E-mailing his superior, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs James Kelly, Keyser said he planned to take three days of annual leave because...
...hope the incident won't negatively impact Taiwan-US relations." Keyser's boss, Kelly, says he wasn't informed of any of Keyser's contacts with the agents. Keyser's friends are struggling to explain the situation. "Don Keyser is a man of impeccable integrity and patriotism," says Lord, "That's why I don't understand what's going on." Neither, apparently, does...
...series grew into a beloved, multiple-award winning favorite of kids and adults. Earlier this year, after 55 issues, Smith concluded the epic story. Newly collected into one volume, "Bone" is now a mammoth 1300-page, economically priced ($40; Cartoon Books) graphic novel combining the mythical scope of the "Lord of the Rings" cycle with the visual delights of the early Disney movies...
...care of her apple-cheeked yet oddly strong Gran'ma Ben. As the Bone's lives become more entwined with Thorn's it becomes clear that she has a secret past that her Gran'ma has been keeping from her. Meanwhile an evil, unseen entity known as the Lord of the Locusts has been gathering armies, including the rat creatures, with plans to take over the world. Smith artfully teases out the tangled relationship between Thorn, the Bones and the Lord of Locusts, eventually ending the book in a long climactic battle where destinies are chosen and lives changed forever...
...Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood was crowned ‘Best Actor of All Time’ after winning a chicken-wing eating contest in a campus classroom...