Word: feelings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much for curiosity. I didn't feel like dealing with it, so two days ago I "saw my dealer...
...thing. Perhaps those students who as sophomores do not find themselves moving toward one clear direction should just stick to one concentration and not worry about their decision. Still, the expense of a Harvard degree and the relatively short period of college education make some students feel otherwise. Most students do in fact want to get the most for their money and find the area in which they are truly interested...
...Give me a break," says the man. (My hip translator is a Berkeley graduate.) "Despite our tradition of filial piety, most of us treat our elderly relatives like crap when they are alive. Then, when they die, we feel guilty and build shrines to their memory and use valuable land to bury them. It's all nonsense. It's all hypocrisy -- as hypocritical as this wedding...
...Enough!" shouts the mother of the groom. "This is their wedding day. I don't want to hear anymore. Let us leave quietly." Then, apropos of nothing more than the increasingly common disdain many Chinese appear to feel for the army they saw as their great protector before it marched on Tiananmen, this small, fine-boned woman with searing brown eyes and a complexion Margaret Thatcher would compare to a rose recites some lines of Du Fu, the 8th century poet famous for decrying the gulf between ruled and ruler in China: "So it is better to abandon a daughter...
...Charlotte, N.C., accelerated for takeoff on a rain-drenched runway at LaGuardia Airport one night last week, some of the 63 on board felt a strange reversal of the jet engines. There was a skid and an impact that, though it left two dead and 45 injured, did not feel especially severe. A greater shock awaited at the bottom of the escape slide. Said social worker Larry Martin of Brooklyn: "When we got off, we were in the water." Passengers who could not swim held on to driftwood or each other, while many clambered on to the aircraft's broken...