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...Everywhere in soccer-mad Bangkok, in fact, people wear garments proclaiming their affiliation with one or another English Premier League team. But one jersey you're unlikely to spot? That of Manchester City. It's not because City has struggled, unsuccessfully, for three decades now to emerge from the shadow of its more moneyed crosstown rival, Manchester United. Even Birmingham's lackluster Aston Villa, after all, maintains a dogged fan base in Thailand's capital. No, the reason Manchester City is taboo in Bangkok is because its new owner is ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra...
...Hard boiled Wonderland and End of the World, 1985 A sci-fi tale set in the Tokyo of the future amid a technology war. In alternating chapters, the unnamed protagonist, the sole survivor of an experiment to implant decoder chips in humans, fights to reunite his mind and shadow. Winner of the Junichiro Tanizaki award, the Japanese Pulitzer...
...mortality. "He was always a little bit scared of death," Graham said, and thus wanted a preacher handy--like the time he talked Graham into flying to a convention with him because the weather was so bad, he thought the plane might crash. Having entered office in the shadow of the Kennedy assassination, Johnson was conscious of how a President's death can shatter a country. Long before his Administration collapsed and he announced that he would not seek a second term in 1968, Johnson privately told Graham what he was thinking. "It was in the family dining room," Graham...
...Hayden’s concerns that “counter-insurgency, being based on deception, shadow warfare and propaganda, runs counter to the historic freedom of university life,” Sewall said that, as a knowledgeable outsider, it was her role to help educate the military about humanitarian concerns...
...obvious morals. At the play’s climax, for example, after watching Adam spend most of his life traveling around the globe in search of Gildoray, he speaks the incredibly revealing line: “I was chasing a kingdom and found it was only a shadow.” This point was evident within the first few scenes of the play...