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...would write in English on behalf of the downtrodden Chinese"). Others are renegades or peripatetic cultural ambassadors or secluded misfits. Often, they are each of those things at different times. Those who wish to reach audiences in their new homes must also grapple with linguistic loyalty. Much of the book is about this - it would be, given that Ha Jin has chosen to write exclusively in English and takes issue with those who argue the ultimate betrayal is to choose to write in another language...
...book Great Business Teams, consultant Howard M. Guttman discusses five steps to greatness. The first phase involves two critical tasks: getting an organization horizontal and aligning teams properly. In this excerpt, Paul Michaels, CEO of Mars Inc., the world's largest candy company, which is rarely written about, discusses the path to proper alignment...
Gareth Evans, a former Australian Foreign Minister who's now president of the International Crisis Group, has just published a book on R2P. If something proves difficult, "it doesn't mean you abandon it," he argues. Rather, you "reinforce and update" it. Initially, he says, that would mean sending more soldiers and money. Others wonder whether the U.N. is doing not too little but too much and is in danger of falling into the same trap as NATO in Afghanistan and the U.S. in Iraq: the more robust the mission, the harder it is to leave. Alex de Waal, program...
Like a singer egged on by Simon and Randy, Blago had his own enablers goading him to take one more stab at "Bohemian Rhapsody." When he fled his Springfield impeachment for Manhattan, TV producers had only to book him, mike him and watch their good fortune unfold...
...decisions. You can make a good argument that complacent cheerfulness, in the form of blind faith in our credit cards and home values, got us into this situation. And there's evidence that certain so-called negative emotions can help us get out of it. In his new book, Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life, esteemed psychologist Dacher Keltner of the University of California, Berkeley, notes that we usually conceive of emotions as diseases: we say we are "mad with rage," for instance, or "sick with love." We think the ideal economic decision maker...