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...hatred of recruiting originated at the Phoenix Club. Standing in knee-deep snow, I was attempting to explain how my hometown neighbor used to baby-sit the cousin of a former member. As I was told “no” for the fourth time that night, a group of water polo recruits struts in, no questions asked. I trundle back to Pennypacker, where my proctor is pouring my roommate’s alcohol down the sink...
...into the kitchen where the women were preparing the Ferragosto lunch, comparable to American Thanksgiving. Half an hour later, more food had been made, extra chairs were fitted around the table, and my brother and I were instructed to sit at the kids’ table with a cousin whose name was Maria Grazie—forever “Maria Thank you” to us. Three hours later, I had entered a culinary coma from which I thought I’d never emerge. Not eating everything was not an option. Mangia...
...eyes glanced down the long table of relatives, halting on my 13-year-old cousin and my 80-year-old grandmother, whose birthdays we were somehow gathered one floor above a stripper cage to celebrate. Surely, there had been some mix-up. We were at the wrong restaurant. Something...
...Harvard women’s hockey team took to the rink for their Feb. 8 game against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), something was noticeably different. Instead of donning their usual uniforms of crimson and white, the 24-member team sported jerseys in crimson’s rosy cousin: pink. This unusual flourish was part of the “Pink at the Rink” program, a campaign to raise money for the fight against breast cancer. Twelve women’s hockey teams in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) wore customized pink jerseys as part of the joint...
...factories - many foreign-owned - that runs for miles. One friend, a guy I play basketball with at a gorgeous new public sports facility, is an engineer for SMIC, the large semiconductor company that has a plant not far away. This friend - I'll call him Yu Xiang - has a cousin he has visited who lives outside Los Angeles, and says that New Songjiang reminds him of the area. "Now I call my cousin and kid him: 'I'm living in the Valley too, but at about a tenth of the price...