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...members of the silent generation, came home with their mouths shut, preferring to keep their angst private. This comprehensive history at last gives voice to their experience and their anguish. On June 25, 1950, Soviet-armed troops from the People's Democratic Republic of Korea charged across the 38th parallel in an attempt to unify the bleak peninsula by force. They quickly swept through the outmanned and outgunned South Korean army. Even the intervention of U.S. soldiers five days later, assisted by a United Nations force, could not stop the advance until it had reached the Pusan perimeter...
...possible for modern life and classical music to coexist, or are they in parallel worlds? -Andrei Zakharov, MoscowIt's like reading Shakespeare. No matter how old the play is, it's concerned with human feelings. There's war, there's peace, there are great days, and there are tragic days. That will never change...
...pretty well known by now that the Internet, for all its world-flattening glory, is a destroyer of businesses without parallel. How many companies roared along for decades, minting money, only to see the Internet eat their business plans? We live in a media age and the media industry is Exhibit A in the murder trial. Newspapers, magazines, music, television, movies - all of the traditional models are dead or dying as bloodied moguls everywhere scramble to survive. But the Net has brutalized old-line business across most industries - retail, telecom, financial services - and the technology industry itself, is, ironically...
...four countries (the others being Lesotho, Swaziland and Somalia) worst affected by the world food crisis. Relief agencies say close to half the resident population now supplement their diets with food aid and, with an economy that has collapsed, there is little hope of improvement. Running parallel to Zimbabwe's worsening humanitarian crisis in the coming years will be a deepening political one, analysts predict. Pretoria-based Zimbabwe expert Chris Maroleng, of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, describes the three months since the first round of voting on March 29 - in which Tsvangirai came out ahead, but without...
Their lives, though, continued along parallel paths. Both men dropped out after long undergraduate careers ("I crammed a four-year program into about eight years," Tindell jokes). Then, in 1978, both started businesses: Mackey, with his then girlfriend, opened a health-food store in Austin; Tindell, with a guy he had worked with at Montgomery Ward, opened a store in Dallas that sold containers...