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...coworkers can calculate revenue from dividends on a stock over the past 18 years in six minutes, but would be incapable of getting from Point A to Point B if the two weren’t connected by miles of underground track. In New York, though, this isn’t an indication of incompetence. Instead, it carries the cachet of never having lived outside the sophisticated metropolis...
...Underground, 1997 The 1995 Kobe earthquake and the sarin-gas attacks on Tokyo's subway by the Aum Shinrikyo cult turned Murakami's thoughts back to Japan after almost seven years away. This non-fiction book was based on scores of interviews with former cult members and gas-attack survivors...
...studied disconnection from the world that has made Murakami's early work so beloved of the fashionable literati - and the lonely young - has receded. In fact, responsibility is his animating principle these days. "I have a gift to write about these things," Murakami says of 1997's Underground, his oral history of the Tokyo subway gas attacks and a book he sees as a career turning point. "At the same time, I have a responsibility." Though he says he doesn't want to talk about Japanese politics, he returns to the subject again and again throughout a 212-hour conversation...
...rules. Students for a Democratic Society was once a successful New Left organization in the 1960s until it turned radical. During a 1968 strike at Columbia University, bands of SDSers took the Dean of Students hostage, and another faction later developed into the Weathermen, a militant underground group best remembered for their penchant for bombs...
...Zuma was arrested, convicted of trying to overthrow the government and sentenced to 10 years, which he served on Robben Island, the famous prison off Cape Town where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for most of his 27 years in jail. After his release, Zuma helped organize underground resistance to apartheid. In 1975, he fled South Africa for Swaziland, Mozambique and Zambia - eventually becoming the ANC's intelligence chief...