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...with contemporary writers - most of whom also write on uncontroversial subjects, like 20-somethings agonizing over exams, relationships and the like. But Mo Yan says that it's "impossible" for him to enjoy their work. "I won't write those types of novels," he explains, "but I do understand there are reasons for their existence." Mo Yan quite unabashedly says that the desire to escape poverty was the initial reason for the existence of his novels but he adds that it has long been supplanted. "Now that I can afford dumplings, why am I still writing? Because I have things...
...collective inexperience. There's another factor that counts against them: the Conservatives have traditionally been seen as the party of the rich, and few Brits are feeling flush. Moreover, Cameron and many among his front-bench team were born to wealth and privilege. Voters wonder if they can understand the concerns of ordinary folk...
...cabinet. Later he will attend a rally with about 2,000 troops at Bagram Air Base, and he plans to visit with wounded soldiers at the base hospital. "We plan to engage president Karzai," said National Security Advisor James Jones, in a briefing during the flight, "to make him understand that in this second term there are things he has to do." Among the issues on the table: government corruption, continued narcotrafficking, the reintegration of former Taliban insurgents into Afghan society and Karzai's appointments of "key government officials." (See pictures of life in the Afghan National Army...
...fact that I was a police officer means that I understand emergencies,” he says. “I don’t get riled. I know how to handle them...
...wealthy, but I understand rules of basic human interaction well enough to recognize the downright offensiveness of James K. McAuley’s Mar. 8 editorial comment, “Friends With Money...