Jung Chang and Jon Halliday claim that Chiang Kai-shek allowed the Communists to escape on the Long March, allegedly because he wanted his son Chiang Ching-kuo who was being held hostage by Joseph Stalin back.

After Jon Bon Jovi claimed he wanted a group name, a friend of Richard Fischer and an employee of Doc McGhee, suggested they call themselves Bon Jovi, following the example of the other famous last name bands such as Van Halen and Dokken.

In the news release containing the announcement, CNN CEO Jonathan Klein indicated that he wanted to change the tone of shows on the network, and in interviews said he sympathised with Jon Stewart's criticisms of Crossfire.

Originally the sole design of Jon Garber, he wanted to call it the ' Mac-camera ', but was vetoed by Marketing, who saw the possibility of it one day becoming a cross-platform product.

Unlike his research for the fictional State of Play, Morrissey discovered that no politicians wanted to talk to him for this fact-based drama, so he turned to journalists Jon Snow and Simon Hoggart.

award win for " Best British Band ", beating competition from Muse and the Stereophonics, which Grant dedicated to Jon saying it was the award he had always wanted the band to win.

Since then, Jon has said that this was the moment when he realized what he wanted to do for a living.

Jon says the trio's parents were highly supportive of them taking up music, stating " they always wanted us to do something creative ... Nothing was too risky.

Jon also noted that the band initially wanted to create a concept album, but stated that " we sort of had to tone it back a bit, because we wanted to make a double album ".

Simen Vangen took over for Jon Lauvland Pettersen, a founding member of Madrugada ; Lauvland Pettersen left the band after their second album ( in 2002 ) and is currently playing in the band Milestone Refinery ; Simen Vangen announced his leaving in 2005 and stated he wanted to focus on various jazz projects, things that did not fit together with being a member of Madrugada ; however, he will continue to collaborate with Sivert Høyem in The Opposition.

Feeder decided to continue, with Grant Nicholas saying, " Jon would have wanted us to carry on.

Rick Wakeman wanted these studio tracks to be released with Jon Anderson's working title Know, with the disc of live tracks thrown in as a bonus.

However, Bobby Jon and James Miller both still wanted Kim to leave, and they both voted for her.

The script for " Bart the Lover " was written by Jon Vitti, who wanted an episode centered around Mrs. Krabappel that examined what it was like to have Bart as a student.

Liman became attached to direct Swingers when its screenwriter Jon Favreau turned down offers from studios who wanted to cast established actors.

And then Jon Peters fired all of them and got in some people who take orders, and who wanted fistfights and all this stuff.

Jon wanted to create a " black version " of Suicidal Tendencies ' song " Institutionalized ".

Other session and touring work Sancious has done includes Living Colour, Seal, Bryan Ferry, Julia Fordham, Robbie Dupree, Natalie Merchant, Eric Clapton, Jon Anderson of Yes, and Hall & Oates.

He enjoys destroying things, mauling the mailman, tormenting Odie, kicking Odie off the table ; he also makes snide comments, usually about Jon's inability to get a date ( in one strip, when Jon bemoans the fact that no one will go out with him on New Year's, Garfield replies, " Don't feel bad Jon.

Many gags focus on this ; his inability to get a date is usually attributed to his lack of social skills, his poor taste in clothes ( Garfield remarked in one strip after seeing his closet that " two hundred moths committed suicide "; in another, the " geek police " ordered Jon to " throw out his tie "), and his eccentric interests which range from stamp collecting to measuring the growth of his toenails to watching movies with " polka ninjas ".

The longest one of these lasted for over a month ( in 1986 August 25 to September 28 ); it began with Jon telling Garfield to go get the newspaper.

Jon starts to get lonely, so he offers a reward for the return of Garfield and Odie.

That same year was the first year of Suicidal ’ s four year recording hiatus and Mike Muir and bassist Louiche Mayorga formed the Label “ Suicidal Records ” as well as the band Los Cycos Jon Nelson left the group and Suicidal Tendencies were banned from playing L. A. shows from an Incident at Perkins Palace ( their fans tore out ten rows of seats and promoters couldn ’ t get the proper insurance to hire them ) Muir was also about to try his hand at producing as well as starting the new label.

The contest was formally launched on 14 May 2007 after the resignation of incumbent Deputy leader John Prescott, Benn had some initial difficulties securing the necessary 45 nominations required to get on the ballot paper but he acquired the support needed to join five other candidates-Hazel Blears, Harriet Harman, Alan Johnson, Peter Hain and backbencher Jon Cruddas.

In 2007, Oliva denied any rumours of a Savatage reunion and tour, as the Trans-Siberian Orchestra has become a year-round commitment, adding that Jon Oliva's Pain is " as close to Savatage as you can get ".

Jon Tester believes it will not be hard to get Democrats of the State to the polling booths in early November 2012.

After dropping Michael off, Jon goes to a rehearsal for SUPERBIA, but not before stopping to get a snack of Twinkies (“ Sugar ”).

The idea of Road Rules came to mind, when Real World castmates Jon, Tami and Dominic traveled in an RV across the United States to get to their The Real World: Los Angeles house in the first two episodes of the second season.

Jon also has a mission set before him: get Garfield to do the right thing.

* Madman Murray ( Voiced by Gregg Berger ) and Demented Dave ( Voiced by Rip Taylor ): Similar to Mr. Swindler, both try to get Jon to buy some cheap junk.

Unfortunately for Cronin, San Jose had two very competent goalkeepers in front of him, 2003 MLS Goalkeeper of the Year Pat Onstad and Jon Conway, and the young keeper did not get any playing time in the 2004 season.

He and 2 new recruits: Sergeant Rhys and Private Emmamo get in the Warthog to search for Jon, but it crashes, killing the recruits, and getting Kelly stuck in a bumbleberry tree outside Green Base, where he is hit by a rock knocking him unconscious.

Upon their return, Garfield tries to warn Jon of the danger but Jon insists that there is nothing to worry about and refuses to move while Garfield tries desperately to convince Odie to get into the car.

For a cheap price, Jon, Garfield, and Odie get a really nice 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air and hit the beach and later decide where to go when their car mysteriously swerves into a jungle on its own, stopping in the middle of a native village.

If a catcher drops the third strike but successfully throws to first base before the hitter, announcer Jon Miller will say ' Sometimes those get by you and turn games around, shades of Mickey Owen in the ' 41 World Series — the whole Series got turned around when one got by him on strike three.

When Jon Kavanaugh launched an investigation into the Strike Team after arresting Lem for stealing drugs, Vic went to great lengths to try to save him, even trying to strike up a deal with Antwon to get Lem protection in prison.

* Jan. 1, 2011-Disgraced, former CPD Commander Jon Burge was sentenced to four-and-one-half years in federal prison, after being convicted of all charges in relation to perjuring himself and obstructing justice in a federal investigation as to whether he was torturing innocent citizens to get false confessions to crimes those citizens didn't commit.

Garfield wakes up to see Jon dressed as an elf, who says it is Christmas and Garfield must be treated to a large amount of lasanga and get his gift, which consists of a robotic Santa which reads minds and produces whatever Garfield wants, pleasing him.

Jon, Odie, and Garfield get to the farm and meet sweet and always cooking Mom, hard working farmer Dad, mischievous younger brother Doc Boy, and the tough as nails Grandma ( This special is Jon's family's debut appearance in cartoon ).

* Jon Turley ( born 26 April 1971 ), an author who writes children's books, has lived in Kidderminster since the mid 1990s and was born some fifteen miles away in Worcester.

We went into the studio, we wrote some songs, Jon demoed the songs on his computer, and then we took them into the studio and played them live and tweaked them a little bit.

Jon D. Levenson, Susan Nidditch and Susan Ackerman have stated that at least some Israelites believed child sacrifice was a legitimate part of ancient Israelite religion.

As an example of satisficing, in the field of social cognition, Jon Krosnick proposed a theory of statistical survey satisficing which says that optimal question answering by a survey respondent involves a great deal of cognitive work and that some people would use satisficing to reduce that burden.

Various public figures and humorists, such as Jon Stewart of The Daily Show and Garry Trudeau, creator of the comic strip Doonesbury have popularized some more famous Bushisms, particularly those of George W. Bush.

Along his 40 year long career, Keitel has established a solid collaboration with some directors such as: Martin Scorsese ( 5 ), Paul Auster ( 3 ), Quentin Tarantino ( 3 ), James Toback ( 3 ), Jane Campion ( 2 ), Abel Ferrara ( 2 ), Brad Mirman ( 2 ), Manuel Pradal ( 2 ), Alan Rudolph ( 2 ), Ridley Scott ( 2 ), Jon Turteltaub ( 2 ), and Wayne Wang ( 2 ).

The author Jon Hassler was raised in Plainview and some of the places in his writing are based on the town.

In 1988, Ailes wrote a book with long-time aide Jon Kraushar, called You Are the Message: Secrets of the Master Communicators, in which he discusses some of his philosophies and strategies for successful performance in the public eye.

Frank and Dyment also discuss Maestro Toscanini's performance history in the 50th anniversary issue of Classic Record Collector ( 2006, 47 ) Frank with ' Toscanini – Myth and Reality ' ( 10 – 14 ) and Dyment ' A Whirlwind in London ' ( 15 – 21 ) This issue also contains interviews with people who performed with Toscanini – Jon Tolansky ' Licia Albanese – Maestro and Me ' ( 22 – 6 ) and ' A Mesmerising Beat: John Tolansky talks to some of those who worked with Arturo Toscanini, to discover some of the secrets of his hold over singers, orchestras and audiences.

* A Guide to Moshing and Concert Survival by Jon Testrake and Nick White, on YouTube, April 4, 2007 ( humorouos video with some serious and useful content, time 8: 53 )

Jon McGee provides information about some of the most important gods in Lacandon religion, but one should also consult the works of Bruce and Boremanse.

The network claimed this was only because they already had scripted / talk programming that addressed these issues, referring to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Chappelle's Show, and warned that some of the views expressed on Tough Crowd did not appeal to the demographics at which Comedy Central's current business model was aimed.

* Fjeldså, Jon ; Irestedt, Martin & Ericson, Per G. P. ( 2005 ): Molecular data reveal some major adaptational shifts in the early evolution of the most diverse avian family, the Furnariidae.

* Fjeldså, Jon ; Irestedt, Martin & Ericson, Per G. P. ( 2005 ): Molecular data reveal some major adaptational shifts in the early evolution of the most diverse avian family, the Furnariidae.

Between 1980 and 1982 Wood released a few singles under his own name and also as Roy Wood's Helicopters, and played some live dates under this name, with a band comprising Robin George ( guitar ), Terry Rowley ( keyboards ), Jon Camp ( bass ), and Tom Farnell ( drums ).

" As we had time to share some serious moments with each other during the 70000 Tons of Metal cruise ( somewhere on the oceans of time ) Jon Iced Earth & Sons of Liberty and I had finally found the chance to put our minds together for a possible next Demons & Wizards album.

Because the band were left without a bassist and lead guitar player, Jon Schaffer ended up performing most of the lead guitar and bass parts on the album ( although some tracks featured playing from producer Jim Morris, Troy Seele and Dennis Hayes ).

" Jon has some old keyboards.

For some years the label specialised in jazz, releasing recordings by pianists Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Paul Bley, Egberto Gismonti and Art Lande ; saxophonist Jan Garbarek, vibraphonist Gary Burton ; drummers Jon Christensen and Paul Motian ; guitarists Pat Metheny, John Abercrombie, Ralph Towner, Bill Connors and Terje Rypdal ; bassists Eberhard Weber, Arild Andersen, Charlie Haden and Dave Holland ; and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

Psychologist Guy Cumberbatch has stated, " The link with a video was that the father of one of the boys – Jon Venables – had rented Child's Play 3 some months earlier.

Jon Leibowitz, commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission in the United States, outlined the potentially anti-competitive nature of some trade association activity in a speech to the American Bar Association in Washington, D. C. in March 2005 called “ The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Trade Associations and Antitrust ”.

It has been suggested that the source of the bootleg was a dubbed copy of a cassette that Jon Spencer let some people copy during a tour with the Gibson Bros. in August 1991.

During the live shows the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion played some previously unreleased songs including a cover of " My War " by Black Flag.