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...living in California when World War II began. Hired by Time Inc. to cover the Asian theater, in 1943 Chickering accompanied the U.S. Navy task force when it bombarded the Gilbert Islands and was with the Marines when they landed on the Treasury Islands. And when General Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines at Leyte, Chickering was among the first ashore. "Correspondents are supposed to be an intrepid lot," he wrote. Nevertheless, Chickering was well aware of the dangers of combat. In January 1945, while serving aboard the battleship New Mexico, he penned a humorous spoof titled...
Richard Powers, 34, is the reclusive author of two earlier highly praised novels, Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance (1985) and Prisoner's Dilemma (1988). His work on The Gold Bug Variations, which began in 1986, was aided by a 1989 MacArthur Foundation "genius fellowship." Seldom photographed or interviewed, he put himself on display during a brief prepublication visit to his native U.S. -- he was born and raised in the Midwest -- before returning to the Netherlands, where he has lived for the past five or so years. He says his brush with publicity was less painful than...
...parents' workplace or in the basement of a public school or in an idyllic country setting, the approach to learning is undergoing a mini-revolution. Today imagination and play are being stressed as never before. Observes Chicago kindergarten teacher and author Vivian Gussin Paley, winner of a $355,000 MacArthur "genius" grant in recognition of her books about young children: "Essentially, everything you learn in school can be broken down into a story. If you allow children to talk about the little worlds they've created, they'll be able to take on everything...
...communists took power in Beijing in 1949, and then, contrary to General Douglas MacArthur's confident predictions, the Chinese People's Liberation Army entered the Korean War against U.N. forces in 1950. The American image of China suddenly flipped back to the stereotype of Fu Manchu and the Yellow Peril. Washington's constant assumption that Chinese aggression threatened all of Southeast Asia led in time to America's war in Vietnam...
...Bush wavered for weeks on whether and how to support the rebellions. Saddam crushed the revolts and began to slaughter civilians. The triumphant Bush now looked more like an impotent Truman in Korea, even with the nation's favorite general, Norman Schwartzkopf, playing the role of Douglas MacArthur second guessing the commander-in-chief...