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...preoccupation with China's tumultuous recent past was foreordained. One of his formative experiences as an author was, after all, ghostwriting a self-criticism for his father, a businessman persecuted during the Red Guards' reign of terror. Qiu says he never set out to write Chinese crime novels. A poet and translator himself - his credits include two books of translated poetry, Treasury of Chinese Love Poems (2003) and Evoking Tang (2007), as well as a volume of his own verse, Lines Around China (2003) - Qiu permanently quit China in 1988 to study at Washington University in St. Louis, a city...
...Your article on Australia's Kevin07 election was thought-provoking. Just one question remains: After Sir Robert Menzies' reign as the longest-serving Australian PM, the Liberal Party tried a series of leaders without electoral success. John Howard was the country's second-longest-serving PM. Now that his heir apparent Peter Costello has declined to stand as opposition leader, will we see history repeating itself? Murray Hunter, Waitakere city, new zealand...
...payday that shook Wall Street: nearly $140 million in compensation set aside for Big Board chairman Dick Grasso. But when Grasso, CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, tried in 2003 to cash in early, the revelations about his staggering paycheck triggered an imbroglio that ended his eight-year reign as King of the Club and brought a lawsuit by then New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Was Grasso, who was interviewed for the book, a victim of the post-Enron era or just another fat-cat CEO? Both. Gasparino insists that Grasso was "one of the most remarkable...
...dealings with the Taliban only served to increase anti-Western sentiment and create the isolated nation Afghanistan became.However, Gannon is not satisfied with the accepted Western stereotype of the Taliban as evil incarnate. She points out that the Taliban single-handedly eliminated opium production in Afghanistan during their reign, which previously had provided heroin to the international market. Ever since the American invasion, poppy production has climbed back up. Additionally, she contends that the terrorist training camps attributed to the Taliban were actually created under the mujahideen, the very same people the US helped to reinstall in its invasion. Gannon...
...court for Michigan. This squad, however, is a different story altogether. In 2001, Amaker inherited a program mired in controversy, facing postseason suspensions and program sanctions as a result of legal troubles with former players. And the team has never fully recovered. Despite winning the NIT championship during his reign, the Wolverines have not made the NCAA tournament in nine seasons and graduated its top four scorers from last season. Whether Michigan has found its next big star in freshman (and Amaker recruit) Manny Harris remains to be seen. But Harris will come to Lavietes as the Wolverine leader, averaging...