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...this tale takes his time getting around to it, but it is a scorcher when it arrives: how Rose and a construction worker fell in love long ago, married and, being devout Roman Catholics, had three children in as many years. How, further, romance soured into a nightmarish descent into impoverishment and brutality. After years of dulled acquiescence to the growing horror around her, Rose musters the energy to strike back. She saves her children from disaster and, in the process, loses them to the legal system. Now, at a different bar, she says that she did not deserve...
However, the article did not show a balanced cross-section of the experiences of Asian Americans at Harvard. Lazarus dealt with the doubts and worries that some Harvard students feel, yet in writing with that goal in mind, he neglected to show that for every Harvard student of Asian descent who has such preoccupations, there is another Asian American here at Harvard who does not ponder his "Asian-ness versus American-ness...
...Like what?" At that very moment, a loud explosion rocked the airplane. Flames curled around the starboard engine and the air was sucked from our lungs as the cabin depressurized. As the plane spun towards the ground, I realized that this might be my final descent. I also realized that I had left the hot water running at home...
...full of spectacular stage pictures and chockablock with pastiches of 19th century warhorse opera. But in the midst of all the mechanics there are 2 1/2 performances that achieve some emotional depth. Michael Crawford commands the stage as the Phantom, bringing complete conviction to such fantasies as a midair descent on a chariot of gilded cherubs and a boating trip on a subterranean lake dotted with candelabra. As his alternately terrified and thrilled disciple, Sarah Brightman is more singer than actress but still manages to suggest a neurasthenic obsession with the Phantom. The half performance comes from erstwhile Ballet Dancer...
...bogged down over provisions to benefit fruit and vegetable growers, who largely rely on illegal aliens for their work forces. Conservatives also balked at the amnesty provision, while many Hispanic leaders feared that the employer fines would make businessmen wary of hiring legally resident aliens and citizens of Hispanic descent...