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...more so because she is unaware of her own wackiness; she cracks jokes without getting them. Sharon dates her search for God to 1974 when, as a 20-year-old folk dancer expelled as a sophomore from Boston University for various convincing reasons, she fetches up in Honolulu with her boyfriend Gary, 35, a "Vietnam-era" graduate student who promptly ditches her, leaving her stuck with the hotel bill. She can't afford to go back to the mainland U.S., and a dunning letter she sends to her father, who happens to be a dean at B.U., elicits a predictably...
...teachers and three crew members missing and presumed dead since a surfacing U.S. submarine sank their training vessel off the coast of Hawaii. Earlier, Commander Scott Waddle, who was in command of the U.S.S. Greeneville when the accident occurred on Feb. 9, delivered to the Japanese consulate in Honolulu his own written apologies to the families of the missing, and to Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori...
...Monday, the Navy court convened in Honolulu to hear the testimony of Rear Admiral Charles Griffiths, who was not on board the sub at the time of the collision but is leading the preliminary investigation into the deadly crash. What Griffiths told the court is damning, not only for the Navy's practice of bringing civilians on board working vessels, but for the officers in command of the sub as well...
...high-priced luxuries Honolulu has to offer, don't forget that many of the city's most endearing attractions cost nothing at all. Take an early-morning hike up Diamond Head, for example, the iconic volcanic peak east of town. Or catch the free Kodak Hula Show at Kapiolani Park, a fun 63-year-old institution recently saved from extinction by the charitable Hogan Family Foundation. And whatever your budget, generous portions of sun, sand and surf are free for all along the seductively kitschy, crowded shores of Waikiki...
Yamanaka, who lives in Honolulu with her son and husband, does not say which details of Sonia's struggles match her own, but does admit that "everything I write starts with some kind of kernel of truth, and then I've got to make it bigger. Life--at least my life--is pretty mundane." Her fictional world, on the other hand, is deliberately unsafe. "Part of truth telling is standing at the edge of the cliff and saying, I've got to see this, and then you jump," she says. "You don't know how you're going to land...