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...very engrossing, but is it true? The reader is unfortunately told nothing about the pseudonymous Yao except that he is "a citizen of the People's Republic of China." Much of his account, moreover, rests on purported access to the memoirs of an official, top-secret investigator of the real events, who is also conveniently dead. The photographs in the book, taken from the official, secret Chinese investigation, are certainly authentic, but copies of them are also probably in the hands of half a dozen of the world's intelligence organizations...
...Reader David Hyun of the Korean American Coalition [July 11] complained that TIME'S report on Los Angeles, the new melting pot, was unfair to recent Korean immigrants. Perhaps Hyun should check into the practices of some Koreatown merchants. I lived and worked in that area for 20 years and continued to shop at the neighborhood market after it was bought by Koreans. One day I tried to pay for my groceries with a check...
...Reader Ho Joung Ha [July 4] begins her letter saying, "As an American citizen, but first and last a Korean." That says...
...prerequisite for a modeling career. At one point, though I had to ask myself if I really had the right to feel indignant about being treated dumb model because there was a growing ring of truth to it I had left high school at 16, a voracious reader. Now, at 23, I hadn't read through a book in years. The realization that a transitory stage had turned into a way of life brought on a panic and depression which my grandparent could never have induced and which kept me indoors for several weeks, with little incentive even to wash...
...that is guaranteed to bring a smile of recognition to any medievalist or to provide a pleasant introduction to medievalist history for the uninitiated. In addition, since Professor Eco is an expert in semiotics, his first novel became an intriguing interplay of signs and symbols. The reader is free to choose at which level he wishes to enter the game and play along. The book can be read simply as a good mystery story, but a more inquiring mind (or pretentious intellect, as the case may be) can seek out the philosophical debates which lurk beneath the surface or track...