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...many middle-class Chinese risk a perilous crossing, mountains of debt and years of grueling labor to start over in a strange land? Life in Fujian is not one of mass starvation or political persecution. But the lure of overseas gold remains great. When his restaurant in England is busy, Little Lin's brother, Big Lin, can make $600 a week, tax free, and despite his underground status, his life is hardly a misery. Big Lin does not know anyone who has been held hostage by a snakehead or enslaved in a factory. Nor has he ever been stopped...
...leaves bloody anarchy in the Niger Delta, which produces most of Nigeria's 2.5 million bbl. of oil a day and increasing volumes of gas. At least 1,000 people a year are killed in battles on land and sea between the 50-odd militias who fight the authorities as well as each other for opportunities to steal oil and kidnap oil workers for ransom...
...just a few months later, all of this emphasis on class bonding disappears. As a sophomore, you’ve entered the pitiful no-man’s land of college life: no longer a shiny new freshman, but not a serious 30-page-paper-writing upperclassman either. Instead of transitional advising and further guidance through your college career, the College offers students a new identity—a house allegiance...
...Kubrick. Rich tips off the New York Times to Conway’s schemes, but not before we are subjected to several more of them. In the penultimate and lengthiest deception, Conway convinces an almost pitiable lounge singer, Lee Pratt (Jim Davidson), that Kubrick’s connections will land him a spot on the Las Vegas show circuit. The Pratt scenes begin with an unnecessary musical number: Pratt swaggers down the stairs, belting a vapid tune from the balustrade. When the camera zooms in, it delivers the final nail in the coffin and buries the film alive. Conway...
...Perhaps the burden of remembering the past was too heavy. Given matza’s tendency to fiercely resist being sufficiently eaten, those who live the unleavened life (not quite the Miller High Life) have to find ways to part the sea of blandness to arrive at the promised land of taste. “You can only eat so much matza because it begins to taste like cardboard,” Denenberg notes. That’s why he creates a HUDS matza pizza using organic pasta sauce and cheese, because after all “matza tastes like...