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They know that even if we have discovered the joys of procrastination, we still work 80-hour weeks and fret over all the details. They notice when we absent-mindedly refer to the trip back to Cambridge as “going home.” And they recognize that we are often so antsy that we shake the dinner table...
...beneath Uncle Sam’s contented conservative front. It is the same unsettling force belying the pleasant satisfaction of America’s ever sprawling suburbs. The commitment to justice for the dispossessed—outside of G.O.P. focus groups awe-struck by George—is as absent as black faces in the Senate...
Kirby said debate about cross-strait relationship was noticeably absent from the race, which focused on city governance...
This week, 45 University of Virginia undergraduates are notably absent from the thousands of college students returning to class after the Thanksgiving holiday. And three recent graduates were less-than-thankful for having to return their diplomas to the university. These academic heartbreaks were due to suspected or verified plagiarism in a physics class...
...sauce on her kimono. The memoir details $5,000 costumes, how rice bran is good for softening skin and the difficulty of wearing okobo, or six-inch platform sandals. In his novel, Golden immersed the reader in the geisha world. Iwasaki tells about it, and there's a difference. Absent here are the lively prose, the vivid characters and the emotions that were all elements of Golden's book. In their place is an authorial voice that manages to be incredibly detached when detailing a profession that is, at its heart, all about personal connection. The result is a surprisingly...