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...review this book because I am a Chinese novelist. But the Chinese women in Wild Ginger and all the other books in the Chinese Chick genre strike me as completely removed from the experience of the contemporary Asian woman. In the novel, Wild Ginger is regularly beaten with belt buckles and has to wrestle with big issues like the struggle for political liberty and the freedom to love. Quite honestly, the major issues I've had to struggle with the past month were a) how to lose weight, b) how to remember where I've parked...
...shady oasis of fragrant flowering trees and rustic guesthouses, which blend with their sacred surroundings. Built in the wake of the government's 1996 Visit Myanmar Year campaign, the resort is run by the enigmatic Juergen Dieter Voss, who, with 17 other successful international hotels under his belt, has chosen to settle in the remote backwaters of Pagan. "I fell in love with the people," he says. "I couldn't leave...
...what Walsh could have done. Junior Kenon Ronz, a starter last year, has been situational reliever all season, and in fact came in to retire lefties at key points late in each of yesterday’s games. Senior third baseman Nick Carter has one career start under his belt, and freshman A.J. Solomine had been been hit hard in relief on Saturday...
...Andronicus she was in. I was cast Tuesday, and the play opened three days later. (Though I auditioned for Mutius, a guy who dies quickly and honorably in the first act, I was cast in non-speaking roles in the ensemble—playing, among other things, a chain belt-wearing, baby-carrying Goth and a Roman who shoots arrows into a wild orgy.) So I’ve been busy the last two weeks, with Titus and the last bit of training for my second run in the Boston Marathon, which turned out to be a disaster. (After doing...
Steven M. Hackbarth ’02—wearing a homemade “Mad Dog” Hanes undershirt—jogged by, followed by dainty-footed class marshal Nicholas N. Lau ‘02, who ran the marathon with zero training runs under his belt. The gritty band of Harvard support, scattered in this decidedly non-Cambridge territory, made its presence known...