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...were walking through a marsh in the middle of the night, and I saw a Vietnamese woman selling fruit at a little stand. I asked a teammate for some money to buy mangoes as I started to change course and walk toward the stand. My teammate just grabbed my arm and pulled me back. There was no Vietnamese woman and no fruit stand...
...Child Under the Moon and the Pine. Confucian philosophy acknowledges the centrality of man, the importance of learning, the appreciation of nature and the cycle of life. All are here, as the little boy, holding his lunch box in one hand and his scroll box under his other arm, follows the aging scholar through the countryside...
...TOOK OFFICE. VINCENT CHENG, 56, the first ethnic Chinese Chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the Asia-Pacific arm of HSBC Group, the world's second-largest bank by assets and a symbol of British colonial power; after being named to the position last December; in Hong Kong. Cheng, who grew up in a working-class tenement and suffered from polio as a child, embraced social activism in the early 1970s (he was once arrested while protesting the demolition of a squatter camp) before joining the bank in 1978 and rising rapidly through the ranks. On reporting...
Ledyard decided to walk through both Europe and Asia, and, as if that were not enough, traverse the still-undiscovered western half of North America. Jefferson suggested that Ledyard have a 12-inch ruler tattooed on his arm so he could measure longitude without an instrument. (Ledyard rebuffed the suggestion...
...Harvard varsity lightweights waited for the verdict. Harvard, Yale, and Cornell were a blur of red and blue across the line, eight men right across from one another, battling for an inch of space in a race that left no room to spare. There was no arm-pumping and no celebratory shouts from any of the three boats—nobody knew...