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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...
...Chinese liquor called baijiu (pronounced buy- joe), which is basically moonshine, only stronger and not quite as tasty. And at those dinners, sometimes what they have to eat is ... well, no doubt lots of fun for their bemused Chinese hosts. "There was one dish that looked like a bowl of ribbon pasta [but] it was crunchy and almost tasteless. I asked what it was, and the Mayor [of a city in northeastern China] said, a 'Shandong specialty: steamed rabbit ears!'" Most westerners would say "Check, please" and head on home...
...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...
...Schoolboys" arc, and the entire book, come as much from its richly detailed minutiae as its historicity. In one sequence Charlie and Fred take a walk past the "Call" building (now Central Tower), through Union Square with its bums lounging around, and into Chinatown, where they enjoy a bowl of noodles and eye the prostitutes behind the bordello windows. So what's changed? Not much. The connection across a 100-year divide is thrilling...