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...male heir" [Sept. 18], as though that were actually within her control. The only failures here are in your demeaning statement that that is her one traditional duty and in forgetting that it was her husband Prince Naruhito who determined the sex of their child, a daughter. Blame him! Peter Basmajian Hong Kong
...postcolonial literature-no more stern apologia from superannuated officials, no more sobbing memoirs of privileged childhood from the waifs and strays of empire-along comes a work that is neither a defense of colonialism nor a veiled lament for its passing. The glib assumption one first makes of Peter Moss's No Babylon-coming as it does from British Hong Kong's former propaganda chief-is that it will be the kind of memoir any undergraduate seminar could destroy in minutes, excoriating an Orientalist cliché here, seizing upon a political or gender bias there. In fact, the book...
...project, says, "From the beginning, when we asked writers to suggest stories, it became clear that we were asking people to think of frontiers in an entirely different way. The suggestions were so strong and varied that I knew we'd hit on a powerful idea." Business writer Peter Gumbel, for example, had a look at what the line between East and West means now by visiting Estonia - a nation in which he had first spent time 16 years ago, when it was part of the Soviet Union. Since establishing its independence, the country has been dramatically successful in building...
...Queen, written by Peter Morgan and directed by Stephen Frears, is the fact-based chronicle of the week Diana died. At first, the royals choose to do nothing, issue no statement, betray no emotions--which, toward Diana, are pretty rancorous. Only when Tony Blair (Michael Sheen), swept into 10 Downing Street in a landslide, gently insists that a consoling word or two might be in order does the Queen realize with a shock that she is not the most beloved woman in Britain...
...went and got a collaborator who was very well briefed and knowledgeable about the banking and financial world--the No. 1 analyst at Merrill Lynch--and he spent time interviewing everybody whose name is in the book. These were people whom I was mentoring like [Shearson's] Peter Cohen or [Citigroup's] Jamie Dimon; or John Reed, after we did our merger. One of the interesting things in spending two years working on a book is that it is a little cathartic. People whom I had grudges about--I felt that it's enough time and life is too short...