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...landscape like this? One whose proprietor, at age 75, is also bursting with charm and ideas. James Graham Ballard was born in Shanghai, where his father worked for a British textile company. After the family's wartime internment, Ballard studied medicine at Cambridge, trained as a pilot in the Royal Air Force and worked at a scientific journal. He started writing for science-fiction magazines and became a leading figure in sci-fi's New Wave, which eschewed outer space for the more immediate world. "I haven't written any science fiction since the 1960s," Ballard says from his home...
...comic. In 1945, when Eric was two, his father died when coming home from the Army for Christmas; the car he'd hitched a ride in was hit by a truck. The family had few resources, so for a dozen years, from age seven, Eric was raised at the Royal Orphanage in Wolverhampton, an institution he describes as "bleakly Victorian." The school was bleak and chilly. "I was cold until I was nineteen," Idle recalled, conjuring up the deprivations George Orwell wrote in an essay-memoir of his own educational incarceration, "Such, Such Were the Joys...
...Imperial Influence Re "Japan's Mystery of Majesty" [Sept. 4]: It is ridiculous to cast the Imperial Household Agency as a shadowy and mighty institution that dictates the behavior of the Japanese royal family. It is only a minor government department. The royal family is more reserved than its European counterparts because Japan does not want a colorful monarchy like the one the British have. Moreover, the bond between the Emperor and the people of Japan is far stronger and more deeply rooted than your story suggested. The imperial house lost political power to the warrior class centuries...
...East was never going to be easy, but a political chill has put some of the world's biggest energy projects in an unexpected deep freeze. In the decade since they [an error occurred while processing this directive] negotiated separate drilling agreements with Russian authorities, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell have gone way over budget and incurred the wrath of leading environmental groups. But last week, the two oil majors faced their biggest challenge so far: a Kremlin backlash that could hold up or even potentially derail their plans. Moscow revoked a key environmental license for Shell's $20 billion...
...creates ripples. Some ripples become waves, and some waves become tsunamis. Paul Lai Longwood, Florida, U.S. Imperial Influence Re "Japan's mystery of majesty" [Sept. 4]: It is ridiculous to cast the Imperial Household Agency as a shadowy and mighty institution that dictates the behavior of the Japanese royal family. It is only a minor government department. The royal family is more reserved than its European counterparts because Japan does not want a colorful monarchy like the one the British have. Moreover, the bond between the Emperor and the people of Japan is far stronger and more deeply rooted than...