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Lead prosecutor Tom (Mad Dog) Sneddon, for 22 years district attorney of California's Santa Barbara County, tried to take command of the case early, with forceful but empathic questioning. Legal analysts have scoffed that he is a relative bumpkin next to the slicker, more experienced defense team, but this deeply religious father of nine has a near perfect legal record. And Sneddon knows how to talk to the jury, which may be more comfortable with his small-town style...
...Hwang says his and Moon's cloning experiments were so complex that there was no eureka moment when they realized they had succeeded. But Hwang plans to celebrate when he gets back to Seoul. "I'm a country bumpkin who grew up in a rural village, and here I am in the United States receiving praise for what I have achieved. The day after I return to Korea, I'll take out my research team for kalbi (Korean-style ribs). Then we'll regroup and start again...
Even apart from the images of the Rocky Mountain states which are likely to alienate East Coast dwellers—those of bumpkin right-wingers who are to the right of Barry Goldwater—it is undeniable that the vast majority of people here do not share a culture with the East Coast. My own freelanced education was something grossly different than a St. Albans one—characterized by reading books outside of the classroom and dabbling in local politics. Other Montanans who didn’t have the luxury of living in “the city?...
...order to sow the seeds for deeper frustration, the Tigers won the Japan Series (once, that is, in 68 years). But otherwise, as with the Cubs of America (Osaka is perennially called Japan's Chicago), their place in the national pageant, and the seasonal order, is as the lovable bumpkin and comic prop. This year, though, not according to plan, the Tigers soared into first place in April and then refused to leave. They trounced the Giants, again and again (and their rivals' woes are compounded by the fact that it's now their star, Hideki Matsui, who is hitting...
...very existence of Sounds of the River (Harper Collins; 307 pages), the U.S.-based author's second memoir in his adopted tongue, assures us that despite the odds against him, this callow country bumpkin will somehow make good in the big city. The book is comprised of a series of colorful vignettes that chronicle Chen's seven-year odyssey from the humiliation of his arrival on campus to the hard-won triumph of securing permission to study in America. Shuttling his narrative between Beijing and Yellow Stone, his home in the Fujianese countryside, Chen recounts his often-awkward coming...