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...which was soon subsumed into the bloody conflict with invading Japanese forces, provided little time for family and certainly no time for home. In fact, Deng was too busy proving his worth to Mao to return to Paifangcun in 1940, when his father was killed and beheaded by unknown attackers. After Japan's defeat in 1945, Deng was instrumental in driving a military wedge down the middle of China, forcing the Nationalists to withdraw and enabling Mao to press on to victory by October...
...another life, Loh Liang or Zanskar. Garland writes as they travel, without emotion or opinion or allegiance. His narrator is an affectless young Englishman named Richard, who, in Thailand, comes upon a hand-drawn map that seems to locate a dimly-rumored and supposedly unreachable island beach unknown to tourists or authorities. With a young French couple, flaccid Etienne and wanly beautiful Francoise, he manages to find this Eden, whose legendary sands can be arrived at only by jumping from the top of a high waterfall...
...instead. Now her goal is to revamp the internal management at clanking CSN, whose steelworks began operating in 1946 in Volta Redonda, a town 100 km northwest of Rio. Marques is introducing new management policies--such as dividing the company into separate profit centers by product--that are virtually unknown to Brazil's insular corporate world. "If I don't watch out," she allows, "someone will start importing what I produce within three or four years. CSN will have to be as cost efficient as the Japanese and the Koreans...
Maybe you've never heard of BILLY BOB THORNTON, but that doesn't make him an unknown. The surprise Oscar nominee for Best Actor can be connected to every other Best Actor or Actress nominee through people he has worked with. According to the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon theory, any actor, living or dead, can be traced back to Bacon within six steps. For Billy Bob, it's only four--plus he's friends with the President. Take that, Kevin...
...Zinn and Chomsky are unknown to many students at Harvard, and that is unfortunate," he said, "if only for the sake of intellectual debate...