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...readings touched on Miller’s booming laughter, generous spirit and “huge bear hugs...
...remote border area. There, he planted rice, fished carp, hunted water deer and encountered a nation where lives remain rooted in nature and clan and authentic interactions between human beings. People knew his true identity, and didn't care. Zhang, in turn, came to admire his "kind and generous neighbors." The most remarkable passages in this memoir are those that explore this "unsanctioned" China. Part of the tragedy for Zhang and fellow exiles from his generation is that they can no longer hope to connect with this unofficial country. Nor can they escape their harsh memories of the official China...
With your cleats. On a day when generous spots were few and far between for Harvard’s offense, Rodney Thomas made sure the officials knew exactly where one of his second-half carries started and stopped. Both of his shoes came flying off on the play, one in the backfield and one several yards downfield, where he was tackled...
...abusive and distant figure who seemed actively to court his family's contempt. When Mullan was 14 - by this time, he says, his father "had been serially raping my mother for a number of years" - the boy decided to take action. He prepared a cup of tea, added a generous dose of rat poison and took it into the sitting room. "I'd never made him a cup of tea in his life, and he knew it," says Mullan. "I laid it in front of him and he just grinned. He knew full well what I was thinking of doing...
...course load that goes above and beyond that of the typical Harvard student. ROTC not only provides students with a way to serve their country while earning their degree, but also enables a great many of them to pay for it with the program’s generous financial plans...