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BOOKS . . . RED CHINA BLUES: In the summer of 1972, as she recounts in a wry, wondering memoir, 'Red China Blues' (Anchor Books; 405 pages; $23.95), 19-year-old Jan Wong left home in the U.S. and flew to Beijing to join the workers' paradise. A valued propaganda asset, she was enrolled at Beijing University along with minders assigned to ensure her political purity. To the horror of her fellow students, she clamored to experience the nobility of manual labor, and eventually was allowed to serve at a Beijing tool factory, pretending to make lathes. Her language skill, anonymous Chinese face...
...centers of strength for the team were never in question, however. The team had a sensational set of freestylers that powered to the lead consistently. In addition, the team turned what is often considered a weakness--a large number of inexperienced freshmen--into a tremendous asset...
Aside from what he brought to the job, Bok was also important for what he did not bring--a lot of baggage. His anonymity seems to have been viewed by the search committee not as a lack of stature but as an asset...
Vinik, who plans to start his own investment company called Vinik Asset Management, told TIME that he decided to leave "in the past couple of weeks," after lengthy talks with his wife. "It was a family decision," he explains. Up until now, he says, his extended and successful stay at Fidelity had allowed him to spend "good quality time" with his three children. He claims to look back with satisfaction, having met a personal-performance goal by consistently topping the S&P 500 index. "With 20/20 hindsight," he concedes, "I wish I hadn't bought bonds when I did." Sounds...
...civil trial. The awkward premise is that this pair of secretive anti-tobacco activists manages to plant him on the jury. He then easily takes control, getting an exceedingly dim judge to banish balky jurors and drugging another uncooperative panelist himself. She, meanwhile, remains offstage (not an asset in the sort of novel in which at least a modest degree of bodice ripping is expected) but does manage to drive the tobacco lawyers to blithering distraction with a series of enigmatic phone calls. Thus the good guys are as crooked as the bad guys, though they don't cause lung...