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Get the Summary of Patricia Evangelista's Some People Need Killing in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Some People Need Killing" by Patricia Evangelista is a poignant exploration of the human cost of President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs in the Philippines. The book follows the story of Lady Love, an eleven-year-old girl from Manila's slums, whose parents are killed by masked gunmen enforcing Duterte's anti-drug...
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#1 I wanted to travel by train from London to Tokyo. I found passengers who were willing to travel with me. Duffill was one of them. He was old and his clothes were far too big for him, but he had many oddly shaped parcels wrapped in string and brown paper.
#2 The train was speeding through Clapham. I had left England behind. The sky was old. Schoolboys in dark blue...
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#1 I had been on three flights before boarding the bus to Erzurum: Paris—Istanbul, Istanbul—Ankara, and finally Ankara—Erzurum. I was comfortably strapped in my seat when I looked down and watched as the landscapes, cities, and villages raced by. I wanted to get out and walk.
#2 I set out from Istanbul on the first leg of this journey in April 1999. I was excited...
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#1 I came to Fuling on the slow boat downstream from Chongqing. It was a warm, clear night at the end of August in 1996. The city was small, and there was only one other foreigner in town.
#2 The Fuling group, which was the biggest of the Long March groups, had walked more than a thousand miles. They had been sponsored by Magnificent Sound cigarettes, and they had run...
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#1 The French were also responsible for the second betrayal, when they sent their forces to suppress the Vietnamese, West Indians, and Africans who had once been their colonial subjects. This happened in 1955.
#2 The French government used the same logic as John Locke to claim that only Europeans were competent users of God's nature, and that only they could own it.
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#1 Istanbul is the crossroads of civilizations, where Europe meets Asia. It was once called Constantinople, named for the fourth-century Roman Emperor Constantine the Great. The city has been the capital of two grand empires.
#2 Istanbul is a vast city with 15 million inhabitants. It is split into two parts by the Bosphorus Strait, which runs north to south through the...
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#1 The fight in the Marianas that June crystallized the issue. The Allied fleet invaded Japanese territory for the first time, and the Japanese fleet was soundly defeated. The Allied planes hardly managed to lay a glove on the Japanese.
#2 The Japanese diplomat Kase Toshikazu was a trusted friend of the captain, and he told him the toasts were to the official version....
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#1 The American Pacific Fleet was edgy as rumors circulated that Tokyo was about to surrender. The Japanese empire had been shrinking since 1942, and the elected government was irrelevant.
#2 The two-week Allied conference in Potsdam, Germany, which had begun on July 17, finished on August 2. The conference was primarily focused on the immediate postwar situation in...
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#1 To understand Claire Chennault, you must trace his roots to the backwoods of northeast Louisiana. His father, John, was a cotton farmer who had built the house with his own hands in 1905 when Claire was a boy. Claire wanted to escape from his seemingly inevitable fate as a cotton farmer like his father.
#2 In 1910, Chennault attended the Fifth Annual Louisiana State...
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#1 On October 5, 2016, a flight attendant on a South Korean airline evacuated all the passengers and crew members after a man's new Galaxy Note 7 smartphone began smoking. The device had been exchanged two weeks before the flight.
#2 The most disturbing part of this is that Klering's phone caught fire on Tuesday, one day before the Southwest flight, and Samsung knew...
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#1 The history of Albania, a landlocked country in the Balkans, is a complicated tale of extreme interest. The claims of Greek, Bulgarian, and Serb in the Balkan peninsula are well known, but it has been the fashion always to ignore the rights and claims of the oldest inhabitant of the land, the Albanian.
#2 The ancestors of the modern Servians poured into the peninsula...
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#1 The Army Nurse Corps was administered by Captain Maude Davison, a career officer and the chief nurse. The work was relatively easy and uncomplicated, and the women spent their days chatting about the future.
#2 On December 8, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and launched a surprise attack on the United States. The war was already on its way to the...
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#1 The American military leaders were debating what should come next after the capture of the Mariana Islands in 1944. Should American forces attack Luzon, the largest Philippine island, or invade Formosa. They decided to invade Luzon.
#2 The American military had grown by leaps and bounds in just three years, and was now a world-striding giant wielding astonishing...
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#1 The secret war was a game designed by an enterprising officer to teach new pilots about the Vietnam War. It was modeled after Monopoly, with the first moves covering such dull stuff as aircraft maintenance, radio procedures, and the Rules of Engagement. The briefing officer took the players through the gradual process of developing into an old head instead of acquiring...
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#1 The British East India Company, a trading company, invaded and destroyed the Indian civilization of which Durant was so astonished and outraged. They were carelessly destructive of art and greedy for gain.
#2 The British East India Company subjugated a vast land through the power of their artillery and the cynicism of their amorality. They displaced nawabs and maharajas...
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#1 My mother told me many stories from my childhood years later, and as I grew older, I realized that she had been the most outgoing and bravest girl in her town. She was always called a pretty girl. She had many friends, but she never wanted to be with boys.
#2 I met a military man, and he and I met every night following my performances for many months. The man told...
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Book Preview: #1 On Feb. 25, 1986, President Corazon Cojuangco Aquino was sworn in as the 11th President of the Philippines, in defiance of President Ferdinand Marcos, who had held a similar ceremony in Malacañang. She promised to restore unity, genuine reconciliation, and democratic space. Instead, she allowed a repetition of a strongman rule and an era of hatred, vengeance, and...
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#1 Around 780,000 years ago, the Yellow River flowed much closer to the place we call Beijing than it does now. The area was home to two tribes, the Hu and Xi, from whom the Han Chinese claim descent.
#2 The Yellow Emperor, who is said to have invented writing, is the basis of the popular claim that China has 5000 years of recorded history. The earliest hard evidence...
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#1 Jong Un, the youngest son of Kim Jong Il, was chosen to be the next supreme leader of North Korea. He was brash, confident, and headstrong, but his youth would be a problem, particularly given the existence of powerful greybeards around Kim Jong Il who might try to influence the young leader.
#2 Kim Jong Un, the son of Kim Jong Il, was proclaimed the new leader of...
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#1 The name China was adopted by Westerners and given new meanings which were then transmitted back to East Asia. In European minds, China became an ancient, independent, continuous state occupying a defined portion of continental East Asia.
#2 The idea of a pre-eminent China traveled from Europe to East and Southeast Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
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