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Canada’s Talisman Energy came under heavy fire from activists two years ago for its stake in the Greater Nile Oil Project—the same joint venture with the Sudanese government that PetroChina’s parent company has undertaken...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel and Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Endowment Tied to Sudan | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

...look for anything morose here, however. Gweilo is sometimes a bit novelistic for a memoir, but it is alive with delight in the new. The boy's golden hair is considered lucky by the Chinese, who cannot resist touching it. "I was a walking talking talisman," he writes. This, plus his status as a gweilo ("ghostly man," or Caucasian), allows him to walk undeterred into Hong Kong's brothels and opium dens to befriend coolies, Triad gangsters and the real-life model for Hiroshima Joe. Perhaps Booth's biggest coup is talking his way into Kowloon Walled City, a notorious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong's Golden Boy | 8/23/2004 | See Source »

...American southwest. Don't look for anything morose here. Gweilo is sometimes a bit novelistic for a memoir, but it is alive with delight in the new. The boy's golden hair is considered good luck by the Chinese, who cannot resist touching it. "I was a walking talking talisman," he writes. This, plus his status as a gweilo ("white devil," or foreigner), allows him to walk undeterred into Hong Kong's brothels and opium dens to befriend coolies, Triad gangsters and the real-life model for Hiroshima Joe. Perhaps Booth's biggest coup is talking his way into Kowloon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong's Golden Boy | 8/8/2004 | See Source »

...Ocean," (Top Shelf Productions; 52pp.; $6.95) and Peter Kielland's "Fish" (Kim-Rehr Productions; 72pp.; $8.95) use pantomime and free-associative storylines, but to much sillier ends. "The Octopi" imagines the brainy encepholopods as being at constant war with the brawny sharks. In order to retrieve an important talisman from the sharks, the octopi kidnap a boy by substituting his school bus with an amphibious vehicle driven by a disguised octopus. After bringing back the talisman the boy gets folded into the shape of an envelope and returned via post to his parents. It goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fish Tales | 5/28/2004 | See Source »

Like many southerners who move away, Wesley Clark of Arkansas and John Edwards of North Carolina now wear their Southernness gaudily, as though they must prove its authenticity. For them, the South seems not so much a home as a talisman to ward off Northeasterners and liberals, Dukakises and--they hope--Kerrys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: Campaign Journal: The Southern-Fried Twins | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

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