Tolstoy on Cossacks

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Regarding my Dec. 21, 2009 posting titled 康熙 Kicked Russian Butts. I could
not understand why Russians were as cruel as The Economist depicted. A
report may shed light.

Sophia Kishkovsky, Tolstoy Recalled Fondly in Chechen Museum. New York Times
, Jan. 2, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/books/02tolstoy.html?scp=2&sq=tolstoy&st=cse
("In 'Hadji Murad' Tolstoy writes of a vicious circle of cruelty and the
Chechens’ resentment of the Russian soldiers: 'It was not hatred, for they
did not regard those Russian dogs as human beings; but it was such repulsion
, disgust and perplexity at the senseless cruelty of these creatures, that
the desire to exterminate them — like the desire to exterminate rats,
poisonous spiders, or wolves — was as natural an instinct as that of self-
preservation.'")


---------------------------Separately
(1) David Barboza, Telecom Company to Pay $3 Million in China Bribe Case.
New York Times, Jan. 2, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/business/global/02bribe.html?scp=1&sq=china%20telecom&st=cse
One of the company’s founders is a Chinese-born American, and most of the
company’s operations and employees are based in China.

(2) Financial Times on Dec. 28 had a one-page theme on family businesses."

(a) Tom Mitchell, Wisdom of generations pays off; Tom Mitchell looks at how the ability to diversify has proved crucial to success in the crowded territory. FT, Dec. 28, 2009.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0c0fb1fe-f351-11de-a888-00144feab49a.html

Note: Cheng Yu-tung 鄭裕彤

(b) Roel Landingin, From struggling student to Forbes rich list in five decades; Lucio Tan's family left China to find their fortunes and Manila did not disappont. FT, Dec. 28, 2009.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3efe1bf0-f351-11de-a888-00144feab49a.html?nclick_check=1

Note: Lucio Tan 陳永栽


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