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When the Elephants Dance.(Book Review)
When the Elephants Dance. Tess Uriza Holthe. New York: Crown, 2002. 369 pages. $24.95; $14 paper.
The Caprices. Sabina Murray. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. 210 pages. $13 paper.
My parents are Filipino veterans: my father was a young second lieutenant at the fall of Corrigedor and survived the Bataan Death March. My mother was a newly graduated nurse on army duty at Nichols Field when it was bombed by the Japanese in the opening days of the war. Later, she suffered extensive burns during the retaking of Manila by the Americans. My mother's stories of her experiences, off recounted in my childhood, and still repeated today, made World War II a greater ...
- When elephants dance. (buyers are caught between giant software vendors...
- Magazine article from: Computer Shopper Blackford, John May 1, 1997 700+ words
...he notes, "You can bet on the loser being the end user." In fact, he adds, an old African saying applies: "When elephants dance, the ants suffer." Those of us in the PC business should take a hint. Sometimes we're so enamored of technology...
- Holthe, Tess Uriza. When the elephants dance, a novel.(Brief Article)(Young...
- Magazine article from: Kliatt Lewis, Courtney November 1, 2003 700+ words
Penguin. 368p. c2002. 0-14-200288-7. $14.00. SA "When the elephants dance, the chickens must be careful." Using this Filipino saying, the Karangalan family patriarch describes the Philippine Islands...
- The Smaller Elephants Dance.(Last year's merger news was dominated by huge...
- Magazine article from: US Banker Marshall, Jeffrey September 1, 1999 700+ words
Looking simply at the numbers, you might think that bank managements, and their merger advisers, were on an extended holiday in 1999's first half. The number of financial institution deals fell by more than a third, and volume dropped off more than 60% from what it was in the same period last year.
- Review: Mind your toes if elephants dance.
- News wire article from: United Press International February 19, 2003 700+ words
WASHINGTON, Feb 19, 2003 (United Press International via COMTEX) Louis Gerstner taught the IBM elephant to dance during his period as chairman, but competitors' toes may have suffered! That's the conclusion from reading "Who says elephants can't dance," Gerstner's memoir of his nine years at the
- World War II. Pacific War. 1945. (PAR294314)
- Picture from: Magnum Photos W. Eugene Smith January 1, 1945 700+ words
...Eugene Smith Magnum Photos 01-01-1945 World War II. Pacific War. 1945. Keywords: household...natural element rubble construction material world war ii conflict defense wwii 2nd world war confrontation armed conflict defence war wars...
- The National World War II Museum to Host Film Conference Examining How a...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 22, 2008 700+ words
Real to Reel: World War II in Film, Documentaries & Newsreels...The Second International Conference on World War II this April NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The pivotal years of World War II have influenced and inspired filmmakers...
- Veterans of World War II find themselves richly, newly celebrated.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Infield, Tom May 22, 2004 700+ words
...years ago, Bill Guarnere's heroics in World War II were mostly unknown even to his neighbors...Guarnere is an extreme version of what many World War II veterans have experienced recently...weekend with the dedication of the National World War II Memorial in Washington. As they ...
- Hot topic in Germany: aggression in World War I; Sunday marked the 90th...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor August 2, 2004 700+ words
...largely responsible for the outbreak of World War I. To a population that had grown up...theories that test old notions about World War I are surfacing. Already this year...more students are showing an interest in World War I courses. "I have noticed that World...
