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...Cold War years; altogether his storied diplomatic career lasted more than 40 years. While serving as an ambassador for Soviet leaders from Khrushchev to Gorbachev, Dobrynin was widely admired in Washington for his charm and political skill. After returning to Moscow, he advised Gorbachev and later wrote a well-received memoir. In a historical coincidence, he died the same week as a new arms treaty between Russia and the U.S. was signed...
...notion that slavery shouldn't be mentioned, because everyone knows it's bad, but Robert E. Lee should be because, apparently, no one knows he was a great general, is, well, ignorant. But it's a naked emperor ignorant, an ignorant brandished by someone without the wits to know what they don't know, a kind of ignorance squared...
...first in August 2008, when HP spent $13.9 billion to buy the languishing infotech-consulting giant Electronic Data Systems (EDS), a direct play against high-end-services leader IBM. Then last November, HP announced it would pay $2.7 billion for networking concern 3Com, a means to rile Cisco as well as expand HP's footprint in the rapidly growing China market, where 3Com is strong. About 70% of HP's business is overseas...
...write a follow-up to his prize winning first book. Similarly, Martel's Life of Pi won the Man Booker Prize in 2002, and now he's produced a follow-up in the form of Beatrice and Virgil. This kind of metafictional loop has become a convention as well-worn as those it was meant to explode. Somebody needs to come up with a fifth wall to break. (See the all TIME 100 novels...
McLaren went on to have successes with Adam and the Ants and Bow Wow Wow before ditching the bands entirely and becoming the true talent behind his own hip-hop- and opera-inspired pop tunes as well as a dozen other songs throughout the 1980s...