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...Seniors Ann S. Kim, Rebecca J. Mandell, Emma F. Phillips, Taylor L. Pollock, Jin Y. Yoo and Marjolein Wijnen form their self-declared social circle...
...Jin Park, a member of this year's TCF Senior Leaders' Team, said he is confident, however, that next year's team will share the same position should debate pick up next fall...
Ohene Asare and Jin Park, Tufts seniors who are members of the Senior Leaders' Team, said the team's decision not to consider Catalano for a leadership position was a shared one, however...
...WAITING by Ha Jin. A doctor in the Chinese army wants to divorce his wife, who lives back in his native village, and marry a nurse. Years and years pass, and the doctor gets no closer to his heart's desire. The author's gently comic rendering of this ordeal won him, deservedly, a 1999 National Book Award...
Although there is nothing inherently funny about two people being romantically thwarted for nearly two decades, Waiting turns, page by careful page, into a deliciously comic novel. Ha Jin, who left his native China in 1985 to study at Brandeis University and then remained in the U.S., tells this tale in an impeccably deadpan manner. He casts a wise, rather than a cold, eye on his characters' struggles, both with an inflexible social system and their own weaknesses. With two earlier collections of stories and a novella, Ha Jin attracted notice as a guide to a world few outside China...