Word: memoirize
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...China's stimulus package may provide little more than a short-lived growth blip if officials are unable to control the perennial bugbear of Chinese economic development: pervasive corruption in local and provincial governments, which make their own way far from the brilliant technocrats in Beijing. (Read "The Secret Memoir of a Fallen Chinese Leader...
...memoir recounting the days he spent as Kim Jong Il's personal chef in Pyongyang, Kenji Fujimoto calls Kim Jong Un, the third son of the North Korea dictator, the "Prince." "When Jong Un shook hands with me," Fujimoto writes, "he stared at me with a vicious look. I cannot forget the look in the Prince's eyes: it's as if he was thinking, 'This guy is a despicable Japanese.'" Jong Un, Fujimoto also writes, is "a chip off the old block, a spitting image of his father in terms of face, body shape and personality...
Greenfeld is the author of Boy Alone: A Brother's Memoir (Harper), from which this article is adapted...
...sparking harsh criticism from bloggers and the domestic press. The word chengguan has even taken on an alternate meaning in Chinese. "Don't be too chengguan" is an appeal not to bully or terrorize. In other words, chengguan has literally become synonymous with violence. (Read "Tiananmen Ghosts: The Secret Memoir of a Fallen Chinese Leader...
...penned polemics, literary criticism, a memoir and further novels, but her debut made the biggest impact. "There's probably a huge need for an updated Women's Room, for all those 20-something girls who say they want to be feminists but no longer have the words," says writer Stella Duffy. French's greatest gift was to help women articulate their world...