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...with rare exceptions, like China's stint as the heavy in the latest season of 24, Hollywood acts as if modern China doesn't exist. Where the Soviet Union was a Hollywood baddie for decades, China lurks unobserved, like dark matter in the universe. Even the 2004 remake of The Manchurian Candidate replaced the Chinese with an evil corporation...
...have been plucked from the book of an MGM musical of the '40s, Gail's life edges closer to something between The Cosby Show and Dynasty. After Radcliffe, she reports, she did everything an Ivy Leaguer should: worked as a volunteer for Jack Kennedy, made TV commercials, served a stint on LIFE magazine. ''The black bourgeoisie,'' she writes, ''took great pride in its separateness from ordinary black culture.'' It was Lena redivivus, including marriage to a white man--in this case Director Sidney Lumet, the ex-husband of Gloria Vanderbilt. Buckley admits that black history took place for her like...
SHANGHAI — As I prepared to travel to China for the first time, I thought that bracing myself for the culture shock was the best way to ease the transition into my ten week stint in Shanghai. Since my Mandarin language skills barely extend past ni hao, I came to Shanghai expecting only additional culture shock. But as I used my first lunch hour to explore Shanghai’s sleek Pudong area—a special economic region that the city transformed from farmland into a breathtaking skyline in only 20 years—I quickly discovered...
...pretending to be something that he is not seems to be Sam Israel’s favorite trick. He is no more ill-suited to his latest role as an unlikely fugitive than he was to his earlier stint as a hedge fund manager. In both cases, he proceeded despite obvious warning signs, making up for what he lacked in talent with deception. At the inception of his Bayou investment firm, Israel distributed a partially fabricated resume to attract clients. And when the inaptly named Bayou Superfund lost $35 million in 2003, Israel simply reported that it made $25 million...
...James Jones is a retired four-star Marine general who served as NATO's top commander from 2003 to 2006 after a stint as the Marine Corps' commandant. He gets bipartisan praise from those he has worked with in the military and civilian worlds. Curiously enough, he served as one of the corps's Capitol Hill lobbyists (yes, the military services have them too) at the same time Captain John McCain was pulling the same duty for the Navy. The two remain, by some accounts, good pals...