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...whether he's simply going through the motions to improve his geopolitical position and attract more aid. After all, the worst military confrontation between North and South since the 1953 cease-fire took place barely a year ago, when a Northern vessel that had infiltrated Southern waters was sunk. Still, there was no mistaking the message of reconciliation in the atmospherics he generated during the Pyongyang summit, and his acceptance of an invitation to visit Seoul. Either way, he's not about to allow an influx of foreign influences to undermine his country's monolithic Stalinist ideology...
Would he criticize an erring colleague? "I shall," Dirksen would promise, in a voice like the finest whiskey aged in fog, "invoke upon him every condign imprecation." Dirksen was especially toothsome when praising the fig newton, manufactured in Illinois. "A man who has not sunk a molar into a fig newton," Dirksen would announce, his gray-golden ringlets vibrating with emotion, "has let much of life pass...
Once the deal was done, the factory rose miraculously from a site in the city's Pudong development district--140 acres of marshy paddy field with no roads, electricity or drainage. The first piles were sunk in January 1997, and to everyone's amazement, not least the GM engineers, the first car rolled off the line on Dec. 17, 1998. "The government helped us enormously with infrastructure," says Chen Hong, president of SGM. In 1998 SGM was designated Shanghai's No. 1 economic project--a privileged, pull-out-all-the-stops status that went to the city's new airport...
Trickle-down economics has not yet sunk to the places that the people in George Saunders' fiction must, for want of a better fortune, call home. The hilariously hapless heroes of the six stories in Pastoralia (Riverhead Books; 188 pages; $22.95) live as adults with their crotchety mothers or religiously obsessed sisters or a menagerie of squabbling relatives. The beleaguered breadwinner in Sea Oak works as a male stripper at Joysticks, a club with an aviation motif, and notes of his lodgings, "At Sea Oak there's no sea and no oak, just a hundred subsidized apartments and a rear...
...have been stove by a whale." Moby Dick? No, this leviathan was part of the real-life drama that inspired the Melville story. Halfway around the world from its home port of Nantucket, Mass., while chasing whales in the South Seas, the 238-ton whaler Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The episode, in November 1820, was the Titanic disaster of its day, much discussed because of what ensued...