Word: homesickness
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...says nostalgically. Brother Jimmy’s, the new restaurant and bar that has planted its cowboy boots in the former stomping ground of the House of Blues, is making Click, Welch and other members of Harvard’s newly founded Southern Society more than a little homesick...
...South Korean intelligence last week, Song reportedly admitted through his lawyer that the North Koreans called him Kim Chul Su. But Song insisted that he is not the high-ranking party official who goes by the same name. Song, who says he returned to South Korea because he was homesick, spoke briefly to a gathering of friends and media on Friday, commenting cryptically: "The Song Du Yul you think you know is the real Song...
...also about time. The decades zoom by in a parade of poignant tableaux, and the Gangulis' son Gogol grows up to become a successful architect, but he is never quite comfortable in his own skin. He feels neither Indian nor American, without even a true home to feel homesick for. But a series of tableaux, however poignant, does not a novel make. In her Pulitzer-prizewinning story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, Lahiri mastered the art of ending on a freeze-frame, leaving her characters suspended in a moment of ambiguity and ambivalence. It doesn't work quite as well...
reuters For a homesick guy trying to save a buck, Charles McKinley got the mother of all supersavers. The New York City shipping clerk had himself packed in a crate and sent by air freight to his parents? home near Dallas. McKinley, 25, could face jail time for the caper, which he later regretted. "I was short of cash," he explained, "and truthfully I really should have waited...
...Homesick grunts from the Army's 3Rd Infantry Division may have ruffled Pentagon feathers last week by calling for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's resignation. But it turns out the soldiers have history on their side. As long as wars have been waged, troops have complained about their work, often censuring their leaders with more than harsh words. Here's a look at how servicemen have vented through the ages. --By Mitch Frank...