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...novel The Crazed ends amid the aftermath of the bloody Tiananmen massacre of June 1989. Jian Wan, the longhaired grad student and narrator, has been in Beijing and has seen the monstrous crackdown firsthand. Back in his staid university town, he is tipped off that the police are coming to arrest him as a counterrevolutionary. He flees, hawking his Phoenix bike to a fruit vendor for some apricots and enough change to buy a train ticket to Nanjing. From there, Jian plans to board an express train heading south to Guangzhou, then sneak into Hong Kong and eventually make...
...With campaigning underway for a Dec. 23 general election, and Isaan a key battleground, dinosaurs again roam the region - political ones this time. Lumbering onto a campaign stage in this sleepy town is veteran politician Samak Sundaravej, 72, the right-wing firebrand who leads the People Power Party (PPP). The PPP is an ill-disguised facsimile of Thai Rak Thai (TRT), the party outlawed after the Thai military overthrew its leader, the multi-billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra, in September 2006. The TRT's Bangkok headquarters is now occupied by the PPP, and the two parties' logos are almost identical...
...spokeswoman Jessica Shumaker said that Faust’s emphasis on spending ample time to flesh out the details of the University’s growth would ease town-gown tensions...
...will help transport 100 million gallons (380 million L) of biodiesel a year to Imperium's customers. Watts is happy to see his refinery jump-start the economy of Grays Harbor, but he knows the benefits of Imperium's green, low-carbon fuel will be felt well beyond the town. "It just makes you feel good to work on something that's helping the planet," he says. "That matters...
...back burner.Harvard will submit a revised 50-year plan to the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) for approval next spring. BRA spokeswoman Jessica Shumaker said that Faust’s emphasis on spending ample time to flesh out the details of the University’s growth would ease town-gown tensions.“For the community to be able to hear from the top person that they want to do it the right way and they want to hear from everybody is the right way,” she said. “But I don?...