Word: unexpectedness
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Hu may also be able to rely on unexpected allies in the army, where he is No. 2 to Jiang. Last month Gen. Chi Haotian, a retired Defense Minister long considered supportive of Jiang, wrote in Seeking Truth, a Party magazine, that the army must "at all times obey the...
Ghosh is not yet a great writer. He lacks the intoxicating, Dionysian power of Salman Rushdie at his best, and the craftsmanship of Rohinton Mistry?his only real co-passengers in the first-class cabin of Indian novelists?but he can do what they can't: leave you feeling two...
America's space program owes an unexpected debt to Batman--as well as to Seabiscuit, the Hulk and dozens of other movie projects. Or at least it will, come early September, if a helicopter stunt pilot who sharpened his skills on all those films succeeds in bringing one of NASA...
Two motifs dominate the sophisticated but always readable layouts. The first, naturally, is that of the towers, or more specifically the orange skeleton of the north tower, seen by Spiegelman just seconds before its collapse. The image appears in every episode of "No Towers," but noticeably smaller each time. This...
With at least a dozen casualties and billions of dollars in damages expected, locals were calling it the Friday the 13th Hurricane. But bad luck was not totally unexpected. Floridians have weathered repeated deadly hurricanes, such as Andrew, which in 1992 became the costliest U.S. disaster prior to 9/11. But...