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Indeed, at the Centennial Celebration, Gorra’s profile of the typical Green hero as “a shell of humanity” who notably “preserves himself from involvement [in a situation in order to maintain his integrity]” is remarkably similar to modern literature’s steely hero. Wood furthermore describes Greene’s brand of heroes as “those sort of feeding on their own vitals, consumed by a sort of cynicism and lassitude...
...aiming at the crowd. A chest-high bullet hole in a concrete post in the park seems to indicate that this might have been the case. The Nation newspaper in Bangkok printed a photograph of a soldier aiming at the crowd with his automatic weapon horizontal to the ground, shell casings spurting out from the magazine. Ai says she saw two men killed in front of her and immediately began to run, like the rest of the crowd, to the river, where they took shelter behind the embankment. Some began swimming out to boats, which had come close...
...Even at home, Beijing has faced embarrassing setbacks in its efforts to produce more oil and gas. In August, a consortium led by oil giant Shell pulled out of a just-finished gas pipeline running 4,400 km from China's western deserts to Shanghai after the firms decided their returns would be too small. A planned oil pipeline covering the same distance has also seen no takers. Shell and Unocal also backed out of a multibillion-dollar project this month to tap gas fields under the East China Sea. And no foreign companies have been willing to participate...
...before 9/11. The year before, as part of a study for a Senate commission, Schwartz had brought up the horrifying possibility of terrorists flying planes into the World Trade Center. That wasn't the first of his scenarios to come true. In the 1970s, he and his mentors at Shell warned of the rise of OPEC and the oil crisis, and as the cold war raged in the 1980s, he foresaw the downfall of the Soviet Union and the rise of an obscure apparatchik named Mikhail Gorbachev...
...dinner with a Chicago CEO and client who asked whether reports of the Iraqi army massing on the border with Kuwait were anything to worry about. "Don't think twice about it," replied Schwartz, who had worked long enough in the oil industry for Shell to be familiar with Iraqi saber rattling. The next day Kuwait was invaded, and Schwartz "looked like an idiot," he concedes. "I applied an old mental map to a new situation and failed to force myself to be imaginative...