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Bliss may have been held because Qualcomm failed to pay a bribe. The arrest may also have been a political move by provincial FSB officers wanting to show the West who was boss.
Why were we ever so optimistic? In stalling a proposal to expand keycard access among the Houses at last week's meeting of the Committee on House Life, the house masters proved once again that they are more beholden to their own provincial reasoning than to the safety and convenience...
Born into an intellectual family in Yangzhou in China's eastern Jiangsu province, Jiang was adopted at an early age by his uncle, a veteran revolutionary, who was killed fighting for the communists in the civil war. Teachers described the boy as an "illustrious student," and he attended a provincial...
Autobiographies tend to fall into three broad categories: lives of the rich and famous, twisted tales of the dysfunctional and portraits of artists as young scamps. Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life, the new memoir by J.M. Coetzee, a South African novelist and Booker Prize-winner, ostensibly falls into the final...
The best-written chapters in Boyhood treat the pastoral, not political, aspects of South African life. Coetzee lavishes description on Voelfontein, the Coetzee family farm. The young Coetzee, who feels estranged by Worcester society, "must go to the farm becasue there is no place on earth he loves more or...