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...Next morning we're bumping over dirt roads through rice fields, on our way to meet the past. Word of our arrival at Baan Yandee gets around quickly. Within 10 minutes, dozens of smiling villagers have materialized, each trying to drag us to his house. Nai Tong, the headman, introduces himself and listens with rapt attention to my wife's story...
Four members of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, decked out in flamboyant drag, concluded the event with the 2002 Class Ode, a satirical song with references to the closing of the Crimson Sports Grille and the campaign on campus for a living wage...
Instead of letting that setback drag down his play, Winter played brilliantly the next night versus Penn, scoring 12 points, hitting a clutch free throw down the stretch and teaming up with freshman Graham Beatty to contain the Quakers’ stars, Ugonna Onyekwe and Koko Archibong, in a 78-75 overtime...
They had plenty of time to reflect as the afternoon wore on. Talk drifted from their freshman year together in Canaday Hall, to their notorious drag performance in the Miss Pfoho competition, to their next, uncertain years, and even beyond, to children and suburban barbecues...
...family," says sociologist Yoko Shoji. "Now people just pity them." So what does oyaji mean now? Kazuhito Suzuki, a 20-year-old construction worker who admits to beating up an oyaji, snorts and rolls his eyes. Sitting on the front stoop of a pachinko parlor, he takes a drag on his cigarette and watches a parade of older men passing by. None of them looks him in the eye, none dares ask him to stop blocking the doorway. "They smell," he says. "The minute I get on a train in Tokyo, I can smell them. They're scared...