Word: backyarders
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...looking forward to reeling in a 50-lb. lunker right out of my backyard pond. I say, Bring on the Frankenfish! LUCAS A. SCHLEMMER Columbia...
When an eccentric old Mongolian walked into the backyard of a laid-back American poet in 1987, neither imagined, surely, that they would one day be lurching through modern China in search of a teacher's grave. But Tsing Tsai proved to be no ordinary monk, poet and kung-fu master; and George Crane turned out to be a sympathetic Sancho Panza and inner Mongolian at heart. Written with the quick, vivid immediacy of an ancient Eastern poem, Bones beautifully recounts the recent heartbreaking history of Mongolia--and shows how spirit can get the better of even the deepest sorrow...
Blood-soaked playgrounds conjure up images of the innocent victims of war-torn nations in far-flung places. We as a nation have been slow to awaken to the urgency of the blood being spilled in our own backyard. Last week, a Michigan first grader shot and killed six-year old classmate Kayla Rolland, and in so doing, reminded us of our delinquency in responding to schoolyard shootings with adequate measures...
...similar to that of the Fly Club: members are restricted to two guests, who must be signed in and out, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. Female and non-Harvard male guests may go upstairs in the clubhouse, but Harvard undergraduate males may only enter the basement and the backyard...
...parental charity--is not, in any meaningful sense, a teenager, but a capitalist early bird out to get the worm. This truth informs those ads for Internet stockbrokers in which young punks with goatees and ponytails give investment advice to balding bosses or land private helicopters in their parents' backyard. Exaggerations? Forty-year-olds wish. Not when silicon billionaires like Jerry Yang of Yahoo (31 and worth more than $3 billion) have proved that the traditional interval between a boy's first shave and his first million need not be much of an interval at all. All over the nation...