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Such were the mind-stretching experiences of Peter Hessler, an American Peace Corps volunteer from Missouri who arrived in 1996, at age 27, in a small city called Fuling on the banks of the Yangtze River to teach English for two years. River Town (HarperCollins; 402 pages; $26) chronicles his conversations there with farmers, teachers, porters, cooks and prostitutes and, in the process, provides a wonderful portrait of contemporary China, in all its unsettling contradictions...
...Hessler and his one American colleague are the first foreigners seen in Fuling in 50 years: they get catcalls in the streets, their mail is opened and censored, and what they teach in class--Beowulf, Hamlet, a ballad about Robin Hood--is strictly vetted by local party officials. Yet in private, people open up to Hessler about their marital difficulties, dislike of party control, career plans and all the other complexities of their everyday lives...
Senior Will Oren also turned in an impressive performance for the Crimson. The senior, who currently holds the team record in the 200 butterfly, placed second to Princeton sophomore Carl Hessler in the event with a time of 1:46.65. Oren tag-teamed with Cole to take silver in the 500, clocking...
Cole's 500 freestyle time, meanwhile, was good enough to out-touch Yale sophomore Carl Hessler, who trailed two seconds behind...
...ranged from hiding drugs in objects -- like suitcases, plaques and aerosol cans -- to concealing them on the person. "I once had an innocent-looking Canadian couple in their 60s come back from a Jamaica holiday wearing body wraps containing 10 lbs. of hashish," recalls Miami Customs supervisory inspector Robert Hessler. Some couriers have been found with contraband stuffed in body orifices, others with cocaine-filled condoms in their stomachs. "Nothing is beyond what people will do," says Los Angeles Customs director John Heinrich, "even putting drugs in a baby's diaper and carrying the child through...