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...title of Gish Jen's witty 1999 collection of short stories was Who's Irish??but the theme, as it has always been in Jen's work, was "who's American?" It's never been a question with a simple answer. Her Chinese immigrants and their children are neither apple-pie success stories nor tragic victims of American assimilation. In Jen's world Chinese parents open up a restaurant, make money, move to the suburbs, argue in Shanghainese, then find their youngest daughter wants to be Jewish and ditch Mandarin lessons for Hebrew. There's no melting...
Despite graduating last year’s top scorer, Kate McDavitt ’04, assists leader, Mina Pell ’04, all-time shutout leader, Katie Zacarian ’04, and the best defensive player in school history, Jen Ahn ’04, Harvard relied on its youth as it reeled off three straight wins and outscored its opponents by a total...
Three minutes later the Crimson snatched the lead for good, as junior forward Laura Werner smacked a pass from junior midfielder Jen McDavitt into the net from five yards...
...YACHTING Richard Clarke, Toronto Deirdre Crampton, Toronto John Curtis, Kingston, Ont. Nikola Girke, Vancouver Oskar Johansson, Oakville, Ont. Chantal Leger, Senneville, Que. Bernard Luttmer, Pickering, Ont. Ross Macdonald, Vancouver Jen Provan, Toronto Lisa Ross, Lunenburg, N.S. Mike Wolfs, Port Credit...
...boom, you need the tick, tick, tick. That instant of anticipation occurs near the start of Breaking News, when the roving dread director Johnnie To has carefully built up crystallizes in a single glance that passes between an oblivious cop and a laconic hit man (Richie Jen) posing as a lost motorist. It's pure To, who's proved in classic cops-and-triad films like The Mission and PTU that he possesses a finely tuned mastery of suspense, of those last moments before the ordinary everyday plunges into sudden violence...