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Kingston has complained that critics, while generous, misread her work as being about China rather than America. Berkeley Rep artistic director Sharon Ott, the latest in a mob of adapters who have spent nearly two decades trying to find a dramatic idiom for Kingston's work, calls the central character "a troubled, gifted, 12-year-old American girl trapped in a petite Chinese body...
Another theory is that being Governor just wasn't much fun anymore. During his first two terms, from 1972 to 1980, Edwards was able to duplicate a populist strategy of his fabled predecessor Huey Long: tax the thriving oil and gas companies to fund generous patronage and state programs, much of it to the benefit of his coalition of poorer whites, French-speaking Cajuns and blacks. When oil prices took a dive in the mid-'80s, the good times stopped rolling. Edwards "was a sort of perpetual Santa Claus," says Ed Renwick, a professor of political science at Loyola University...
...pleasant working conditions have changed their minds. Ruthless company-downsizing drives and continued layoffs, coupled with rising pay for top managers, have made their bosses look a good deal less benevolent. After Armco Steel announced a stock offering that included $45 million to be sold to key managers on generous terms, while leaving health and benefit plans unfunded to the tune of $1 billion, workers at the Middleton, Ohio, mill demanded an election to dump a 50-year-old company association and replace it with a United Steelworkers local. The election was held in May, and the USW seemed...
...according to Perry Chen '93, his roommate of two years, Chang's own personality has played a major role in fostering and improving the very tolerant environment he lauds so much. "He's very generous and easy-going. He's not petty....We've had big talks where we've learned so much and challenged each other's thinking on issues...
...time Smith started blowing off steam inher first year of college, she'd written only 20poems ("and that," says Smith, "is anexcruciatingly generous estimate"). She was, likemost first-years, more interested in parties andsocializing than in anything academic--sheremembers her first year fondly as a time when shewas still very young...