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...only what they're going to eat on their plates, and I still pick at their discarded chicken bones. When they want comfort food, I cook them rice. (Shortly after going to college, my older son called to announce happily that the girls next door had a rice cooker.) When my younger son boasted that he'd told his chemistry teacher to stop checking her e-mail during class, I made him go back the next day with a gift of a perfect orange and an apology...
...think I have discovered why Harvard is so stressful. Maybe. Regardless of college itself, the whole "moving away from home/doing own laundry/paying own phone bill/in charge of own life" situation presents its own stress, but Harvard seems to be more of a pressure cooker than most other schools...
...Obscure machinery. What was the last time you used a cheese grater, a hand-whisk, an egg-boiler, an espresso-maker, a milk-frother, a pressure-cooker? The delights of modern engineering never cease to amaze me. Having lived with only microwaves, hot plates, refrigerators and plastic utensils, I find myself constructing elaborate meals (nine-story cakes, boiled eggs and espresso with frothy milk) to use as many of these marvels in three days as possible...
...this pressure cooker that the teenaged Matsuzaka, playing for the Yokohama high school team, cemented, forever, his place in the annals of Japan's sports heroes. A skinny lad with the face of an angel and the arm of a demon, Matsuzaka kept a nation enthralled throughout the tournament. The quarterfinal game went 17 innings: Matsuzaka pitched them all, hurling 250 pitches. In the semi-finals the next day, he played in the outfield, his right pitching arm wrapped in a thick layer of bandages. He took the mound in the final inning to save the game. The next...
...brokering a peace deal - or even a face-saving declaration - is cultivating compromises that each side can market as the realization of the objectives for which it fought in the first place. But whatever is achieved in the emotional, pressure-cooker atmosphere of sequestered peace talks - which in their design induce claustrophobia and the very human desire to simply bring the nightmare to an end in the minds of negotiators from both sides - is inevitably subject to sharply conflicting interpretations once the negotiators return home. All of which suggests that President Clinton won't be able to claim ending...