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...clear picture of Mitchell Johnson has been obscured by his disparate identities--choirboy, volatile romantic, school bully. To those images must now be added the ravages of family turmoil and rootlessness. But was Mitch the instigator of the shootings at Westside Middle School, as Drew's grandfather has cast him? Gretchen Woodard has another version. She told TIME her son says it was Drew who proposed an attack last month. Mitch had said no, Woodard says, but then on the bus ride home from school the afternoon before the fatal assault, Drew approached Mitch again. "Mitch told me he never...
...rhetoric and activism; Chiang Kai-shek, who attacked his rural strongholds with relentless tenacity; the Japanese, who tried to smash his northern base; the U.S., after the Chinese entered the Korean War; the Soviet Union, when he attacked Khrushchev's anti-Stalinist policies. Mao was equally unsinkable in the turmoil--much of which he personally instigated--that marked the last 20 years of his rule in China...
...years," says Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres and the upcoming The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton. "Every time something happens, people say to me, 'It's a good thing you came in when you did.' But publishing is always in turmoil...
Woschitz had dealt with the same bank for years and stuck by it during the turmoil that followed its absorption into a larger institution. But in 1992, his bank was taken over again, this time by National City Corp., based in Cleveland. After that, the dream customer started having bank nightmares...
...would hesitate to give a straight yes to that. After what has happened in East Asia, China may decide that in the midst of all this turmoil, they should do this in gradual stages and not take excessive risk. The original plans must have included raising capital in the Hong Kong stock exchange--red chips. That is not feasible for some time. If capital is not forthcoming, new management will also be absent, because Hong Kong was going to be the conduit of capital and management expertise. He cannot proceed at the same pace...