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...Crossover Village in 1948, the second grouping (of seven stories) describes a ghastly ethical vacuum in the wake of World War II, infested with craven church elders, black marketeers and property speculators, which Hwang, who himself crossed over with his family from Pyongyang to Seoul in 1946, knew first-hand. "What a wretched state it was, with Koreans trying to swallow each other up," he writes in "Booze," venting authorial indignation, as he often does, in the guise of one of his characters. In this case, it's through the thoughts of an upright clerk who slowly loses his moral...
Dodd is not naï ve; he knew that ostensibly softer-edged Republicans like Senator Charles Grassley had drawn out health care negotiations for months before scuttling the talks with tea-party rhetoric about grannycide. But Dodd is retiring after 36 years in the Senate, and he was eager to cut a deal for the sake of his legacy. He knew he needed GOP votes, and he figured that after a catastrophic meltdown, financial reform would be less polarizing than health care. And Corker did seem to be negotiating in good faith, even if GOP leaders were clearly eager...
...Tucker ’13, a current Hollis resident says that she knew she wanted to live in the Co-op even before she came to Harvard. Her friend Josh Neff ’07-’08 sang the Co-op’s praises while they were traveling together in India during her gap year...
...number one spot, if you don’t have your best day, or bring your best energy, you’ll lose,” assistant coach Andrew Rueb said. “We knew [Salec] was a very good player...
...knew the market would be challenging, and we wanted to make sure students were putting their best foot forward,” Weber says...