Scholars credit Mr. Roy with rescuing “The Plum in the Golden Vase” from its reputation in the West as merely exotic pornography and opening the door to a more political reading of the book.<br>It’s one that already comes easily to commentators in China, where the novel is seen as holding up a mirror to the tales of political and social corruption that fill newspapers now.

Kennedy's final days paint a picture of a man who craved excitement. Perhaps because two of his siblings, Joe and Kathleen, had died young and the president himself had repeatedly faced death - as a youth, in World War II, and after a back operation in the 1950s - JFK seemed unusually conscious that his time on earth was fleeting.

November 22 is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. We're going to take a look at the significance of his presidency, his accomplishments, and/or lack thereof. And, of course, everything to do with that presidency is a matter of debate. Whether or not President Kennedy actually wanted to pull out of Vietnam or not, and of course the assassination itself, has been the subject of hundreds of books with competing theories.

WASHINGTON — The President John F. Kennedy students learn about today is not their grandparents’ J.F.K. Since the 1980s, historians have concentrated on leaders’ failings, as well as their successes.

The marathon in question is a weeklong “nomadic reading” of Marcel Proust’s “Swann’s Way” that will celebrate the centennial of that first installment of “In Search of Lost Time” by bringing Proust’s endlessly subdividing sentences, microscopic self-consciousness and, yes, plenty of madeleines to seven Proust-appropriate locations across New York City.

Controversy flared the summer when the Associated Press revealed that Mitch Daniels, former Indiana Governor and now Purdue University president, attempted to censor Howard Zinn's classic A People’s History of the United States from Indiana classrooms. As Zinn Education Project co-director Bill Bigelow told Common Dreams, "When Governor Mitch Daniels attempted to prevent teachers and teacher educators from using Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, this was an attack on academic freedom and on students' right to learn a fuller, more honest history than is found in their textbooks."

The retailer on Wednesday announced a program where stores can sell its popular reading devices. The booksellers would get a small payment on each sale and a commission on all e-books that the reader buys in the next two years.

Sáng15/11, tại Nhà hát lớn Hà Nội, báo Tiền Phong có buổi lễ kỷ niệm 60 ngày ra số báo đầu tiên và đón nhận huân chương lao động hạng nhì.

Some 3,400 years ago, before the Iron Age or the rise of Ancient Greece, people on the Solomon Islands left their white sandy shores for the cerulean seas of the South Pacific. Their adventures brought humanity to the most remote reaches of Oceania, like the tropical islands of Hawaii, Tonga and Fiji.

Theo thống kê của Bộ GD-ĐT, Báo cáo một số vấn đề giáo dục mà Chính phủ trình lên Quốc hội ngày 18/10 nêu con số: Hiện có 130.000 công dân Việt Nam đang học tập ở nước ngoài.