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...This year, the oxen sniffed contemplatively at several of the trays. One then wandered away from the plentiful buffet. As the crowd held its collective breath, the other finally deigned to chew half the corn on offer before it, too, moseyed off. The outcome was grim: a drought, for sure, since no water was drunk, and a poor harvest to boot...
...almost feel Hosseini's range as a writer expanding. The Kite Runner was pretty much exclusively about men; Suns is largely about women--in the interest of authenticity Hosseini actually tried on a burqa. ("Just to see what it felt like," he says. "Nobody was around. It steals your breath away. It's really hard to get used to.") In The Kite Runner we witnessed, from a distance, one of the Taliban's infamous executions by Kalashnikov in a soccer stadium. In Suns we experience a similar execution firsthand, from the point of view of the victim...
...Harvard men’s tennis team hardly had a chance to take a breath...
...twenty-odd undergraduates in a morning economics class let out a collective breath of unease. During a discussion on social mobility in America, a girl had offhandedly suggested, “We [Harvard students] are all middle class anyways”. No one dared nod in assent—or shake his or her head in denial...
...Gamut. The poem exudes the wisdom of a poet twice her age and the energy of any college writer, as in its final stanza:“[W]hat evidence can there be for your eyes? They cast no shadow / but the shadow of my darkness, as reddening breath / passes within us and opens every window to light...