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...thought doesn't come until the end of this odd page-turner, when Noriko has been effectively brainwashed. In the meantime there are plenty of exquisitely perverse intimations and hard evidences rolled out to rebut it. The flawless family portrait starts to crack after Noriko, while on a brief visit back home to visit her parents, sees a TV news report about the death by home gas explosion of a raspy old ice vendor and his family - tenants of the Shitos, who happen to own and lease several residential properties. Murder-suicide, the police conclude. But an overheard midnight family...
...produced a highly political diatribe against dictatorship, reflecting the rising calls for democracy in Egypt at the time he was writing it. The climax of the book unfolds with a scheme by Nagi, the medical student, and Salah, the professor, to stage a small protest during an official visit to the U.S. by the unnamed Egyptian President. Having been selected to give a short speech welcoming the President to Chicago, Salah intends to read a statement defending the right of Egyptians to freedom and democracy. But he chickens out, and later commits suicide. The scene is a disappointment to some...
Obama supporters also received a visit from former presidential candidate Senator John F. Kerry, who stopped by the phone bank early in the day to talk to students about why he was voting for Obama...
...millions of Chinese workers, the two-week Lunar New Year festival offers the year's only opportunity to visit their families. After some initial hesitation, the ruling Communist Party's leadership moved quickly to contain any anger sparked by travel chaos, launching a nationwide mobilization dubbed the "war on snow havoc." Premier Wen Jiabao made three trips in a week to areas hard hit by the storms, apologizing to stranded travelers, consoling families of workers killed clearing power lines, and visiting residents of towns that had been without power for more than 10 days. "This is very important, to allow...
During his visit to the Guangzhou train station last week, Wen told the travelers that they "eat bitterness" - a Chinese expression for enduring hardship. That may be true even when they're not stranded by the snow. It has been the willingness of millions of migrant workers to suffer grueling hours at low pay that has turned this nation into an economic power. Lately, authorities have begun to realize they cannot take such sacrifice for granted. "Only in the last couple of years, as labor prices have begun to rise, have local authorities in Guangdong paid more attention to migrant...