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...foreign country has always been the best way to learn about a place, and putting on a feast for friends has been a great excuse to comb the markets. What started as a modest affair has grown in size: two years ago we served 70 and covered our front lawn with a tent usually reserved for Afghan weddings. The Kabul expatriate community is a close one, and most of us have been here for years. You can't turn family away at Thanksgiving, no matter how big the guest list. (Read a brief history of leftovers...
...hardship, both physical and psychological. In his short stories--tight-lipped parables of abjection that became hugely influential in the 1980s--life is a kind of nonstop distress sale. The apartments are shabby; the rent is unpaid; the living room furniture has been carried outside and strewn across the lawn. The people seem dislocated too, even when they're stuck in one place, licking their wounds and drinking hard...
Upon arriving, we decided to join a group camped out in the middle of the Quad lawn. Jeremy S. Cushman '12, a friendly physics concentrator, became our unofficial astronomy expert. After 20 minutes passed with zero meteor sightings, we started to worry that we were looking for the wrong thing. But Cushman (who had seen two by this point) reassured us. "You'll know," he said. "You'll know you've seen a meteor when you've seen a meteor...
Meanwhile, other groups began to appear on the lawn. By 3:30 a.m., about 50 people had showed up--including three guys who had taken the shuttle from Winthrop. In response the Quadlings' extremely vocal disbelief, one of them said, "It's not that far, guys." (Actually...yes, it is. Especially for an early morning meteor shower...
...Friday, the media crowd gathered on the small lawn of the mosque had grown smaller, but still contained members from across the country and even overseas. At the close of afternoon prayers, mosque leaders and members filed out, patiently indulging reporters' questions as they have done all week, breaking away only to tend to duty - picking up a child from school, or going back to work. The cars and trucks in the mosque parking lot sport "Go Army" bumper stickers...