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...French. Slipping across the Chinese frontier into Vietnam--his first return home in three decades--he urged his disciples to fight both the Japanese and the French. There, in a remote camp, he founded the Viet Minh, an acronym for the Vietnam Independence League, from which he derived his nom de guerre, Ho Chi Minh--roughly "Bringer of Light...
...sought) and two other unsolved ATLANTA BOMBINGS may have been the work of a deranged loner, not a political extremist group as first suspected. After the bombings of an Atlanta abortion clinic and a gay nightclub, claims of responsibility were lodged by "units of the Army of God," a nom de guerre used by some violent antiabortion protesters. But agents scouring the South have identified no group with the motive, opportunity and means to have perpetrated the bombings. Investigators suspect the political rhetoric might be just a red herring concocted by an individual who simply gets a thrill...
...beginning, was not Deng Xiaoping. The eldest son of the county sheriff was given a two-character name that meant "first saint," perhaps a reference to his father's Buddhist piety. Only later, in France, did Deng Xiansheng become Deng Xiaoping, the two new syllables a prescient nom de guerre, literally meaning "little peace," an augury of both tumult and relief. In 1920, at the age of 16, Deng left his rural home deep inland in Sichuan for the port of Shanghai. There he learned basic French and won a scholarship for a work-study program in France. "We felt...
...books on the market. In another bit of publishing gimmickry, both novels--which share the same cast of characters in skewed, slightly different roles--will be published the same day, Sept. 24. One is Desperation (Viking; 688 pages; $27.95). The other is The Regulators, written under King's occasional nom de plume, Richard Bachman (Dutton; 475 pages; $24.95). Along with The Green Mile's 592 pages, this means King will have graced his fans with a total of 1,755 pages of fiction in less than 12 months. By way of comparison, you can get a standard-size, paperback King...
...views of Fosamax, the company's new osteoporosis drug. "It's the kind of concrete information Wall Street used to have a monopoly on because they were the only ones with the money to perform the research," says Randy Befumo, who composes the Motley Fool Evening News under the nom de cyberspace MF Templar...