Word: lanning
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...That goes for even the newest arrivals, like Lan, the mainland-Chinese woman whose entry into the Wong family upsets the delicate balance among the novel's leading voice, Chinese-American Carnegie, his Wasp wife Blondie, and their two adopted Asian daughters and Eurasian biological son. Not even Lan knows what she's doing with the Wongs, though everyone knows why she's there. Carnegie's ?ber-Chinese mother arranged for Lan's immigration in her will, and Mama Wong is the sort of person who gets her way, even in death. (Though she has died horribly of Alzheimer...
...only inauthentic moment came after the music stopped: whereas a Western conductor would have turned around on the podium to bask in the rapturous ovation of a sold-out house, Lan Shui, the orchestra's Shanghainese music director, immediately hopped down from his perch and threw his arms around the nearest soloists, pushing them forward in a comradely display of humility...
...Whatever the reason for Asia's increasing mastery of Western music, the musicians themselves are shedding their modest reserve. His behavior on the conducting podium may be self-effacing, but Lan Shui talks about the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in bold, even hubristic terms. On the morning after his performance of the "Symphony of a Thousand" at the Esplanade, he asserts, "I think it's possible for us to play Mahler better than the Vienna Philharmonic. When we toured Japan with Mahler's Ninth Symphony, there were one or two performances that were as good as Vienna's?or not worse...
...looks an awful lot like ataxia-telangiectasia,' which we couldn't even pronounce. 'I assume you've tested for this?' All it takes is a $20 blood test. The local doctors just looked at their feet." The Marguses recognized the name (it's pronounced ay-tack-see-uh teh-lan-jick-tay-sha), but all they knew was that A-T was really bad. At home that night they read that about 40% of kids with A-T get cancer by age 12; 100% deteriorate neurologically, so they're in wheelchairs as early as age 8; most die of lung...
...need only look at the village of Som. Last week, on the day of the killings, the Muslim residents gathered at the mosque and watched stone-faced as their dead?nine in total, six from the Krue Se mosque and three who allegedly raided a checkpoint in Mae Lan?returned in the back of pickup trucks. The corpses, wrapped in bloodstained sheets, were laid out on the tiled floor at the mosque entrance to be readied for burial. The villagers crowded the forecourt to watch as the sheets were lifted one by one to reveal the bullet-riddled bodies. While...