Word: feds
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...American capitalism," and he hoped she was right. But if it were just a matter of politics (Miller was at the time a committed Stalinist sympathizer), the play would not have lasted. His protagonist, Willy Loman, however, is an Everyman, someone who heedlessly believes all the lies that are fed to us--the ones about success and self-realization, the ones about consumerism, the ones about the necessity of being, as he puts it, "well liked." At the time, the fancier critics thought Willy lacked the noble stature for tragedy. But that's nonsense. We don't live...
...locals of Hama village know what to do with a fat, smelly truffle. For centuries, if the village pigs in this remote corner of China's Yunnan province were acting a little less amorous than normal, the farmers fed a shovelful of truffles to the creatures in order to guarantee a future litter of piglets. Then, a few years ago, a strange tale wended its way through this hamlet so disconnected from modern China that Cultural Revolution slogans from three decades ago are still inscribed on the village's mud-brick walls: foreigners, for some mysterious reason, were willing...
...seven consecutive daughters?named Laidi (Brother Coming), Pandi (Brother Anticipated), Niandi (Brother Wanted), and so on. After a coupling with Pastor Malloy, an ineffectual Swedish missionary, she finally produces a son, yellow-haired Jintong (Golden Boy), who is the book's narrator. Selfish and indulgent, Jintong remains breast-fed until well into his teens. "Do you plan to suck until you reduce me to a piece of dry kindling?" asks his exasperated mother...
...groups included the Alaska Club, Center for European Studies Undergraduate Board, Harvard College British Club, Harvard College Fed Challenge, Harvard College Mahjong Club, Harvard College Unitarian Universalists, Scholarship for Peace, Homeschoolers Anonymous, and Wisconsin Club...
...hour session, some students were fed up with the instructors’ antics. Jonathan M. Husson ’07, an earth and planetary sciences concentrator in Adams House, said that the class was “a bit too catty...