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...with pits of the dragon-eye fruit the way Chen did as a boy. They still go swimming in the creek and roast water chestnuts on charcoal braziers. His family's red-roofed Taiwanese house consisted of four rooms built around a courtyard and an open hearth. They used chalk to write on the charcoal-stained walls how much they owed neighbors and merchants. His father was a day laborer...
...full stomach. He ate only rice most meals. Beef, chicken and fish were for special occasions. His family's typical stone, red-roofed house consisted of four simple rooms built around a courtyard and an open hearth. They used to write on the charcoal-stained walls in chalk how much they owed to neighbors and merchants. His father was a day laborer...
...Chalk it up to my own cynicism, or perhaps to my general distrust of the sugar-coated drivel that emerges daily from the Beltway and its environs, but I would not like the government to have access to anymore knowledge about me than is absolutely necessary. When someone in Washington authoritatively announces that they need more personal information, I want a good explanation why. I do not want the government to know what books I buy, what kind of music I listen to, who my friends are or where I buy my clothes. I do not want them to know...
...eternal war between the boys and the girls, chalk one up for the boys. When TV's two fledgling broadcast networks, UPN and The WB, first went on the air in the mid-'90s, they followed a similar path, blazed by Fox in the '80s: They started with a schedule heavy on African-American stars, built an instant following among minority audiences, then largely spurned them with new programming that went after young white viewers. But while the two networks are fierce competitors, they also operate almost opposite universes. The WB built a lineup of dramas and comedy-dramas with...
...student support has grown increasingly more visible since Friday with the creation of "tent city"-20 tents, banners and messages of support for the living wage campaign drawn on the cement in colored chalk. More than 50 students have slept out the past three nights...