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...uninterested, the book has sold over 4 million copies in three years. A movie version will be released this fall. But there's an irony to Hosseini's success: he became famous as the face and voice of a country he hadn't seen since he was a kid, and whose sufferings under the Taliban he completely escaped. "It's sheer luck," he says, "blind, dumb luck that I'm not there. My family happened to leave before the Soviets, they had the means to leave and make a new life. I felt ashamed, like I should have suffered more...
When I was a kid in Arkansas in the 1980s, we viewed Dallas with something approaching reverence. Mine was a fairly conservative family, aspirational. We passionately golfed and occasionally visited Neiman Marcus, the Dallas clothier that taught the South how to wear Versace and an air of profligacy. I wanted to drive a Mercedes and order bourbon and branch the way J.R. Ewing did. I wanted to go out with a Cowboys cheerleader with marcelled blond hair. The summer I was 13, Ronald Reagan was renominated in Dallas, and I signed up to be a young volunteer...
...problem, as I see it, is that even in professional baseball, the African-American kid is not playing as much,” Walsh says. “I don’t go out recruiting saying we need to bring in minority kids. I liked Andrew Prince because he can hit the ball out of the yard and he’s a great kid...
...Dorchester, Mass. native says that he doesn’t “even look to see whether a kid is of a certain racial distinction.” However, he has had to watch the number of African-Americans in his sport dwindle to a mere 6.5 percent of Division I players—steadily pushing America’s pastime further into Orleans’s second category of sports...
Lamont friends are beautiful but Lamont enemies can get ugly. Students spend marathon hours in the library cramming for finals, only to have their golden study moments soured by the antics of “That Kid.” The one who never learned proper library etiquette. Here are some helpful hints as you prepare to move into Lamont, permanently. Don’t leave your stuff at a study space and bounce. There’s nothing more annoying than trudging to the library only to find all the desks “occupied,” half...