Word: bowlfuls
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...Donald Tsang? Unlike Tung, the Shanghai-born heir to a Hong Kong shipping empire, Tsang does not come from a privileged background. The eldest son of a policeman, Tsang joined the civil service?Hong Kong's iron rice bowl?soon after high school. His diligence and loyalty pleased his British masters, who sent him to Harvard to get a master's in public administration and granted him a knighthood. Tsang acted as a crucial bridge during Hong Kong's handover to China in 1997, and fought off currency speculators during the Asian financial crisis, postcolonial Hong Kong's first...
...faces a tough re-election battle in 2006, by boosting G.O.P. turnout and diverting Democratic resources. For a party trying to reach out to minorities, it doesn't hurt that Swann is an African American. The timing seems right: with both of the state's NFL teams legitimate Super Bowl contenders, football mania is high. Even Eagles fans might give the cross-state hero a break. At least he never played for the Dallas Cowboys. --By Sean Scully
Since the Crimson’s season ended in November, the NFL hopeful and 2004 Ivy Player of the Year has been doing all he can to improve his draft potential. He has played in two senior bowls—the East-West Shrine Bowl and the Hula Bowl—impressing scouts with his accuracy and ability to throw on the run. He has practiced with big-name quarterbacks like Oklahoma’s Jason White. And he showed off his stuff to scores of NFL teams at last weekend’s NFL combine in Indianapolis...
...bulk of the book consists of what Marianne’s grandmother tells her. The story is knit loosely together by a number of objects Sadie possesses, loses, and, in some cases, finds again—a knife, a Congo bowl with magical healing properties, a hat dear to her Jim, a child’s tooth, a prized button. It is convincing and compelling as an oral narrative, most moving and successful where it most closely approximates direct speech (“You close your eyes and feel our love coming up behind you,” Sadie tells...
...many sons the Dear Leader has, says Park Sang Hak, a defector and human-rights activist in Seoul. "People are too tired of endless hunger and threats of war to think about the succession," says Park. About all they could expect from a coronation ceremony might be an extra bowl of rice and an admonition not to show up with long hair...