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...child the author mitigated his rage through the constant drawing of carnage-filled battle scenes. This precocious interest in history and artistic expression now informs his work with greater insight, but no less passion. The book frequently digresses from Jean-Christofe's pathology into narratives of the Beauchard family history. World War I and French Indochina scar the men, while the women are desperate for education to get off the farm. Their struggles mirror the Beauchard's battle with disease. When the author's great-grandmother practices "white magic" and tells his mother of the fairies living in the fields...
...friends," he explains, not too convincingly. "I'm in no rush," he continues. "So far, I've directed a film after every major stage in my life." In the Heat of the Sun (1994) capped off the wide-eyed sexual exuberance of his 20s, and Devils followed a passion for modern Chinese history he developed in his early 30s. "I have no plans," he insists...
...Shared passion for that $27 million treasure, largely paid for by Mokhtar's Islamic charity, the Al-Bukhary Foundation, has evolved into something much bigger in recent years. The bond now constitutes what is Malaysia's most important economic partnership. Mokhtar, a reclusive, 51-year-old multimillionaire, has in recent years gained the trust of the Prime Minister and been awarded a deluge of government contracts. Mokhtar now holds the reins of several key publicly listed companies previously controlled by the government, swelling his empire to include container ports, mines, hotels and oil palm plantations. The publicly traded companies...
...Much of the credit for this year's breakthrough inevitably goes to their fire-breathing dragon of a coach, Philippe Troussier. The French import, known for gesticulating wildly on the sidelines while his interpreter perfectly mimics his antics, once taunted his players for being pampered babies whose play lacked passion. This is no longer an issue. "Their midfield play is superb," says Leonardo, the Brazilian giant from the 1994 winning World Cup team, who also played professionally in Japan. "But the real surprise, for me, is the quality of their defending. They are throwing themselves at the ball, refusing...
...football match is a football match no matter who plays it, and Thailand's jailhouse version has all the ingredients of the genuine article: passion, pain and simply the opportunity to exult in the beauty of the game. "This is our chance to salvage some national pride?and some pride in ourselves as men," says Jovenal Prince, Nigeria's strapping midfield general and team captain. He's 35, and has spent more than a third of his life behind the bars of Thailand's biggest prison. "One day starts to feel exactly like the one before," he says. "You start...