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...admit any of this. "I tell my little brother not to come," says Big Lin. "But I can't really tell him why." For every tale that burnishes the myth of immigrant success, there are many others that speak, if not of failure, then of drudgery, loneliness and a future in a land that will never quite be home. Back in Fujian, Big Lin had a decent job with a construction firm. He made enough to play games of pool with his friends and occasionally treat himself to a seafood feast. Still, Fujian is a place which young men leave...
...woods. That two-story house you bought in a remote setting may look good to you at 70. But how will you feel about it when getting upstairs isn't so easy? "It's hard for us to admit that one day we won't be as healthy," says Elinor Ginzler, director of livable communities at AARP. But it happens; when it does, it's nice to know that your journey into independent retirement came with a return ticket...
...wearing Timberlands and Converse-style skates. Over-the-top skating outfits can add to the hilarity of any film, and Amy Poehler’s latest venture, “Blades of Glory,” is no exception. And she’s not afraid to admit it.“There are some amazing, uncomfortable costumes,” Poehler says in a phone interview with The Crimson. She recalls one in particular. “It’s a very tight Lycra outfit with lots of jewels and feathers and stuff.” She adds...
It’s a well-known fact that everyone has favorite publications that they don’t admit reading, guilty pleasures ranging from Playboy to “Ice by Ice: The Vanilla Ice Story in His Own Words.”The flip side of this secret indulgence is an intellectual hypocrisy, a tendency to pretend to have read books we’ve never even opened. In any course section there are one or two people that will blithely elaborate their views, completely undeterred by the fact that they haven’t done the reading...
...There are always students from all types of backgrounds,” he said. “Test scores are only one of many criteria we use to admit people...