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...conference last week that focused on "yobs," louts whose behavior has shown up in polls as a big issue, Howard used the word "fear" eight times, as in "I want to make yobs fear the police." The association of police chiefs criticized the Tories' use of crime statistics, and Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said he hoped the campaign would not become "a competition about who can most effectively frighten voters." But Howard's appeals to popular anger are designed to capitalize on Labour's most acute vulnerability: low turnout. The British Elections Study ( BES), a highly respected academic...
Directed by Rowan W. Dorin ’07 and Rebecca L. Eshbaugh ’07, Women consists of the interactions between three women in different stages of life: one elderly, one middle-aged, and one young. Never named, the women are listed in the script simply as A, B, and C. In the first act, A, B, and C are a wealthy invalid, her nurse, and an employee of her lawyer, respectively. In the second, they are all A, interacting with herself at different ages...
...chaos is a boon to the enterprising young journalist, who manages to meet many of the epoch's most colorful and influential characters?from Chiang, whose cozy relationship with TIME's editor-in-chief Henry Luce makes Rowan wonder if his stories will be censored, to China's impressively urbane first Premier, Zhou Enlai, to the aging ink-scroll master Qi Baishi, who, fearful of the Communists' hostility to his art, locks up his paints at night and wears the key on a rope around his waist...
...heart of the book is Rowan's coverage of the 1948 siege of Mukden, or Shenyang, the linchpin in the Communist conquest of Manchuria. Rowan and Birns are on hand as the city falls and, after a hairy escape off a bombarded air-strip, learn that the Nationalists are refusing to report the defeat. Rowan can cable his scoop back in time for the week's edition, but Birns' photographs can only travel by air. The two secure passage for the film on a 40-hour flight to San Francisco. LIFE holds the presses for 12 hours and sets...
...When Shanghai falls and the Communist takeover is inevitable, Rowan flees to Hong Kong, sure he'll never see China again. But in an epilogue that feels slightly rushed, he recounts a jumble of visits in the years after the Cultural Revolution. He returns to the villages he went to as a young man, searching for traces of the world he had so vividly documented. Nearly six decades after his arrival, Rowan writes, "The sights, sounds and smells of China will continue to be a part of my being." With Chasing the Dragon, he has ensured that those memories will...