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Former HUPD Capt. George L. Walsh said he remembers Ikels as a quiet and diligent officer. He explained that Ikels had taken after another old Irish Harvard police officer, John Fitzgerald, who lived by the motto, “Keep your mouth shut and say nothing.”
For Dan Rhodes, the chief appeal of writing for a living was not having to get up in the morning. In spite of that slacker attitude, Rhodes, 31, this month finds himself on Granta magazine's prestigious decennial list of the 20 Best of Young British Novelists, standing on the...
"I expected pure Third World," her husband says with a shrug, but Alisha needn't have troubled. In Shanghai there are a dozen Western-style supermarkets?and a Starbucks on nearly every corner, plus Tony Roma's and T.G.I. Friday's and Hard Rock Cafe. On this day, however, Dan...
While the kids are at school, De-Shawto is busy applying for jobs in the area, hoping the family can stay in this new suburban neighborhood just west of the city limits. Shelter staff members scout out local restaurants and retail stores and then ferry him around by van (his...
Authors who stick with the Chinese language, such as Hong Ying and Ma Jian, are able to get Western exposure thanks to diligent translators. Ma's girlfriend, Flora Drew, and Hong's husband, Henry Zhao, are their avid advocates and translators. Ma stubbornly defends his unwillingness to read or write...