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...Ling Moy, a nice girl, previously unaware of her lineage, might be expected to struggle, at least briefly, with the shock of her identity and the dreadful deed her father obliges her to perform. But Wong makes an instant transformation, hissing, "The blood is mine. The hatred is mine. The vengeance shall be mine." Just before his death, Fu mourns that he has no son to kill Ronald. But, in a good full-throated reading, Wong vows: "Father, father, I will be your son. I will be your son!" The audience then has the fun of watching her stoke Ronald...
...taqueria, which opened last year, has enjoyed instant and unparalleled success in its prime spot on Mt. Auburn Street...
...defensive pressure resulted in instant offense for Harvard. Barely six minutes gone in the opening frame, the Crimson held an 18-3 advantage, the spurt led by senior guard Katie Murphy’s two three pointers and Cserny’s quick six points to start the game...
...periodically, they should also question why he allows malaria, malnutrition and waterborne diseases to take millions of lives every year. We should not believe God will intervene in every cataclysmic event. That is tantamount to expecting the total elimination of all natural disasters, all risk, all danger and the instant banishment of poverty and sickness. That will happen in the world to come, but not now. In the meantime, we should mourn the dead, take sympathetic and appropriate action to help the victims and find ways to assist them in regaining their homes and livelihoods. One more thing...
...Anyone who watched Carson, studied him, as we all did, for decades, saw two things: the Univac brain, riffling through the comic possibilities as he listened to his guest, and an instant later ejected the perfect bon mot; and his distance from the action, as if he were watching the show and himself from some Olympian aerie, where it was always cool. Tynan writes of Carson appraising the other guests at a party, "his eyes twinkling like icicles." It was what we know, from Carson's avatar Letterman, as Midwestern cool: ingratiating but withholding...