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...Asia's Heroes, "The Bold and the Young: 20 Under 40" [Oct. 11]: True heroes show courage by risking their lives, their livelihoods and their futures for the welfare of their fellow man. Let's not promote warped values and discount the meaning of heroism by equating it with mere media celebrity. Perhaps we should put famous entertainers and sports figures in the category of idols in order to retain the true meaning of the word hero. Maria Esperanza Bago Las Piñas, the Philippines...
...bizarre moment, courtesy of Philip Short, a gifted biographer who knows his communists. (His acclaimed Mao: A Life ran nearly 800 pages.) After Mao's banquet of tyrannies?the Great Leap Forward alone killed more than 20 million Chinese?the Khmer Rouge leader should have been a mere after-dinner mint for Short. But Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare, the first biography of the dictator since his death in 1998, weighs in at 650-plus pages, and is the most definitive...
...Crimson offense, while more successful than Dartmouth’s, failed to click for the first time all year. Crucial passes fell incomplete, Clifton Dawson rushed for a mere 69 yards and didn’t score, and field goals outnumbered touchdowns. Promising drives advanced inside Dartmouth territory, then faltered outside the red zone. Seven punts, four of them from inside midfield, pinned Harvard well below its standard scoring output...
...Does this mean that in five years, the new class of big firms like Corus, Arcelor and Mittal will want to walk away? Not likely. In the short term, there is money to be made. And by mere virtue of their size, giants like Mittal should also be well-placed to ride out the industry's next dip. The new group will have "enough economies of scale to ride out the downward part of the cycle," says Daswani. "No-one sits pretty in a downturn. But it's the small and medium-sized companies who get squeezed first." Maybe...
...written word, quoting an Egyptian myth to remind his listeners that literacy-—while increasing the potential for wisdom to be stored and passed on through generations—also produces forgetfulness. Because it is possible to read but not understand a text, Heaney claims, the mere visual perception of words can actually disregard much of the wisdom they contain...