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...tale gallops through the birth of the Chinese republic, the Japanese occupation, the civil war, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and the money-obsessed Deng Xiaoping era, Jintong's feisty sisters are killed off by war and other masculine misdeeds. And, as in other Mo Yan novels, peasants suffer and bleed while Communist functionaries strut, blunder and suck the country dry as Jintong's mother's breasts. The lad survives, though not without 15 years in prison, three in a mental institution and nearly a lifetime in thrall to his mammary fixation. "Whenever I saw a beautiful breast...
...honest, I’m more worried about what Cliff can do at [Heptagonals] than what Ray Bobrownicki of Brown or David Pell of Cornell, jumpers whose personal bests and level of performance I can gauge,” Andrew-Jaja joked after Emmanuel’s impressive leap this weekend...
Juniors Sam Laine, Lawrence Adjah, and Travis Hughes swept the top three spots in the triple jump with leaps of 15.46, 14.82, and 14.04 meters, respectively. Laine’s leap gives him the best mark this season in the Ivy League by almost half a meter—an incredible margin. Hughes also took home second in the long jump with a leap of 6.56 meters. The jump was actually tied for first place, but Hughes was awarded second because of the tiebreaker...
...will be among the top in the league, Andrew-Jaja won the high jump by clearing 2.08 meters. Andrew-Jaja’s jump puts him in a tie for the second-best mark by any Ivy Leaguer this season. David Pell of Cornell leads all with a leap of 2.11 meters...
That attitude is new, but it didn't come out of nowhere. Certainly, the spectacle of the previous generation's mass divorces has something to do with the healthy skepticism shown by the twixters. They will spend a few years looking before they leap, thank you very much. "I fantasize more about sharing a place with someone than about my wedding day," says Galantha, whose parents split when she was 18. "I haven't seen a lot of good marriages...