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...letters from Afghans. Most are proud of the world-famous writer their country has produced, but he gets some hate mail too. "They feel that yes, there are problems in Afghanistan, but do we really need to talk about these things? At this time?" There's probably a grain of truth there--there's something distinctively American and confessional about Hosseini's work. He shrugs. For the first time he sounds a little angry. "I guess I misunderstood what the role of fiction was. Because I never thought it was about writing things that everybody agrees about, that make everybody...
...aware of the panda's plight and for getting East and West to cooperate in saving the animal. The $4 million that four U.S. zoos contribute annually to saving the pandas' habitat is a piddling amount compared with the need, but China has responded by pouring billions into a "Grain to Green" program designed to convert marginal mountainside farms back to forest. There is nothing to be gained by focusing on a few misguided efforts and ridiculing a program that has been highly successful overall...
...from the time I was caught peering into DeWolfe windows with my binoculars to me living like a troll under Weeks Footbridge. It is so humiliating for me to call out to every passerby “answer me, these riddles three,” just to get the grain to grind for my bread. It’s hard to get excited for June 7th when we are already so far beyond the Harvard community, and this time we’re not only talking about raw cognitive capacity. Is our lack of enthusiasm because we feel like we?...
...Smith tells it, he was tending a grain field alone one day, when his master stopped by unescorted to dish out his customary abuse. Smith crushed his skull with a bat, stole his clothes, stuffed the corpse in a haystack and made off atop the dead Turk's horse, finding his way back to Europe along the ancient Silk Road...
...only was it great as the earliest power-food for very active multitudes—consider running from the Egyptian army the predecessor to the Amazing Race—the matza has survived as the premier kosher-for-Passover sports nutrition. Some have even called our unleavened loaves Rabbi-Grain Power Bars (some meaning me). Once you see what a great venue two matzas make for a truly energizing sandwich, you’ll find it no surprise that Harvard’s greatest Jewish student athletes scarf them down like they’re…um?...