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Working in the HUDS kitchen is also unique to the class. “It was the first time I had gotten a sense of just how much work it takes to feed more than 6,000 undergraduates,” said Hong Suk Yang ’10, a student in the class...
...terrific writer, and we were really thrilled to hear that he had gotten that honor,” Heath said...
...What's more, the Dai did not always engage in unruly street battles using buckets filled to the icy brim and unforgiving water pistols. Writes Thai folklorist Phya Anuman Rajadhon: "The water-throwing later degenerated into vicious forms." Older villagers remember a time when these exuberant clashes - splashing has gotten so out of hand in Bangkok that it has been banned in certain areas - instead took the form of gentle blessings...
...write everything as a wake-up call," she says. "To myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button." Imperfect Birds is a well-informed wake-up call. Lamott is a recovering alcoholic, sober since 1986, and has just ushered her son Sam through his high school years in a bohemian enclave of Marin where drugs are there for the asking. Kids who remind her of Rosie are everywhere she turns. On this Sunday morning, she has just returned from a hike to the ocean, where she watched a search-and-rescue team look...
...they got a call from the school system's headquarters, which had originally approved their project. "They said, 'You gotta leave now,' " Samms remembers. " 'You gotta leave the schools.' " Fryer protested, but he lost. "It was just too political," he says. "It was an election year. They'd already gotten letters saying, 'You can't be paying kids...