Word: tang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When I saw the picture. I thought, 'what a nice place to study,'" says Tang. "The next years were devoted to finding the rationale for getting there," he recalls...
...while reading John Kenneth Galbraith's "The Age of Uncertainty" in the American books section of a library in Shanghai, China. Ching-hua Tang came across a picture of the Harvard Business School. Impressed by the beauty of the campus, Tang dreamed of one day coming to the B-School to study...
...five years and three continents later, Tang's dream has come true. A first year student, he is only the second person from the People's Republic of China to enroll in the MBA program...
Walter Schirra, 60, lives with his wife of 37 years in an exclusive development southwest of Denver, travels frequently and especially enjoys big-game hunting. The only astronaut to fly in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, he does TV commercials and other promotion for Tang, the orange drink that the astronauts slurped in space, and for Actifed cold tablets. Although he sits on the boards of several companies, the affable Schirra says he works only when he wants to: "I'm through punching time clocks...
...best characters are fictive. Philip Embree, a missionary fresh out of Yale Divinity School, tries to escape his past by joining up with a gang of bandits. Vera Rogacheva, a beautiful White Russian, attempts to escape her future by surviving with the help of sex and guile. Tang, a Chinese general, still observes the ancient code of honor in a world where that concept has little place. As richly textured as a tapestry, The Warlord captures both the essence of Asia and the sweeping panorama of a people trapped between the ancient grinding forces of hollow tradition and heartless change...