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...luckless travelers are ethnic Chinese raised in Viet Nam. In the months leading up to Hanoi's 1979 war with Peking, more than 280,000 of them sought sanctuary in southern China after being ordered out of Viet Nam. Never really accepted in China, many were exploited by the country's prospering rural entrepreneurs...
...happened to double as a political-education instructor, peppered the Minsk third baseman with probing theoretical questions. Tragically, this led to the only fatality in big-time lapta. During the seventh game of the series, after uttering the ill-advised suggestion "Stick it in your ear, Comrade Coach," the luckless Minsk third baseman was dragged from the Cosmodome by large men in bulky suits, executed and later brought to trial...
...single, and he plays rock clubs as well as country venues. But his voice has offhand brute force when it has to bear down and unforced gentleness when it comes to business of the heart. He sings about familiar territory -- small towns and horizon-piercing interstates, luckless marriages and faithless love, dumb faith and poor prospects -- and blows all the cobwebs away because his eye is fresh and because he appears to be the very guy he's singing about, a Lone Star Everyman with a "two-pack habit and a motel tan." An old-fashioned engine, maybe, but built...
...deductions. Presidents and Congresses obliged, starting a seemingly endless spiral: every break that benefited one group created an alleged inequity that another group could exploit to win favors for itself. But as these goodies removed more and more income from taxation, rates had to be kept high on those luckless -- or politically impotent -- souls whose earnings did not qualify for special treatment...
Ahab's chance comes in the unlikely meeting of medieval East and West, the cosmic collision of a band of luckless crusaders from oh-so-civilized Britain with the exotic chaos of Solong...