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“... both the modernity and the chaos of Cold War Asia’s own age of extremes.He was born Kim Song-ju on 15 April 1912 (the day the Titanic sank), on the outskirts of Pyongyang. Korea had become part of the Empire of Japan two years earlier. Kim’s relatively prosperous Protestant family resisted colonisation: his father’s involvement in the abortive ...”

“... the Middle East’, volunteered to tackle the papers; and we must all be very glad that she did. Michael Seth-Smith’s A Classic Connection also features the career of an earl’s son, George Lambton, whose father was the second Earl of Durham. Lying fifth in a field of nine sons, he had to seek his own living. An Army crammer offered to have the ...”

“... I met Vikram Seth by chance, he met me by mistake. He sat down next to me at an occasion he had never meant to attend. It was 6.45 p.m. on Thursday 25 March at the Royal Society of Literature in Bayswater. Seth had come to hear a friend of his read. I had come to hear the Minister for the Arts describe the Government’s support for literature ...”

“... other selections from his working drafts. Yours Presently, the new volume of letters edited by Michael Seth Stewart, shows Wieners cutting across various groups in American avant-garde writing.‘A homosexual,’ Wieners wrote, ‘since he has been a stigma or outcast freak for so long, does not [usually] have a chance to meditate upon himself, even ...”

“... instance, was Shakespeare’s Last Plays (1938). They have continued to inspire criticism: before Seth Lerer’s Shakespeare’s Lyric Stage appeared, this century’s crop already included Russ McDonald’s Shakespeare’s Late Style (2006), Gordon McMullan’s Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing (2007) and a Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Last ...”

“... holes. So far, the novel’s most thoughtful reviewers – Cynthia Ozick in the New York Times and Michael Gorra in the New York Review of Books – have taken care to talk about both the story-strands and the anxieties about story in Middle C. But they have shied away from trying to answer their own big questions about the novel. Gorra summarises the plot ...”

“... America started arriving at Fort Gulick in Panama for training in counterinsurgency. According to Michael McClintock’s scrupulously documented Instruments of Statecraft (1992), over the next two decades 45,000 Latin Americans, including the future leaders of various coups and juntas, graduated from Fort Gulick. The US army also sent mobile training teams to ...”

“... of the American colonists. As Jonathan Odell described it in his satire, The American Times: What Michael to the first arch-rebel said, Would well rebuke the rebel army’s head; What Satan to th’ angelic Prince replied, Such are the words of Continental pride. Ellen White used Paradise Lost as the basis for her own account of Satan’s rebellion, but ...”

“... of Superman was published, in 1938, by two young American Jews, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. As Michael Chabon wrote in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000), whose protagonists are loosely based on Siegel and Shuster: ‘Superman, you don’t think he’s Jewish? … Clark Kent, only a Jew would pick a name like that for himself.’ Affinities ...”

“... purposes but notoriously for extraordinary renditions. (The 26 comes from Grey, the 33 from Seth Hettena in the San Francisco Chronicle, 24 September 2005.) Most of these planes have been identified and their various N numbers recorded. (N is the international civil aviation code letter for US planes.) The CIA acquired its fleet through classified ...”

“... especially defenders of the ‘Third World’ and its hopes, from C.L.R. James and Edward Said to Michael Gilsenan, more or less uniformly find him and his attitudes troubling and sometimes bigoted. He is portrayed as a self-hater and Uncle Tom, a product of the sorts of complex that Frantz Fanon diagnosed. On the other side are the conservative writers ...”

“... orders into its system. A later ‘first generation’ dark pool, Liquidnet, was set up in 2001 by Seth Merrin, who was well known to US institutional investors because his original firm, Merrin Financial, had pioneered order management systems. These cut out the need to use the phone to transmit orders, which could lead to misunderstandings and ...”

“... location: Nairobi, February 1996, two years into the new RPF dispensation in Rwanda. As I speak to Seth Sendashonga, his vivid eyes are glazed with sadness. I have just spent several weeks in Rwanda, and have returned bearing notepads full of crimes. It isn’t as if he doesn’t know what happened: on the contrary, I’d leaned heavily on Sendashonga’s ...”