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...latest novel available in English, Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth, is a wry coming-of-age account of a young woman's struggle to carve out a place for herself in the wider world. Set in contemporary Beijing, it peeks into the mind of Fenfang, a plucky dreamer who left her provincial sweet-potato-farming village in south China for the distant capital at the age of 17. Her youth, she tells us in the novel's first lines, began several years and odd jobs after that, when she finally succeeded in parting from her "peasant" mentality and realizing...
...full workout room was too loud. Livingstone demounted having heard nothing, and headed off to her WIB event. It occurred to me that no matter how hard Maxwell tried to make herself appear over-committed, she’d always be considered a failure in Livingstone’s mind. Livingstone, vowed to celibacy until after e-recruiting, would always be competitively single. Later that night, I saw Livingstone a few feet ahead of me on Mass. Ave. From behind, I could see her pace start to change as she turned onto Holyoke Street and passed Sandrine?...
...only their Houses, ran unsuccessful bids for class marshal, a position that requires obtaining votes from the entire senior class. One of the eight, Leverett House representative Camden Vilkin ’09, said that with the results of both the class marshal and House representative elections in mind, she now thinks that the latter position is a better fit. “I was a transfer student and I’ve really come to appreciate the House environment, so I’m excited to represent my House specifically,” she said. Many of the representatives...
...student, sees the turkey in a different light. “The first time I saw the turkey was during my second week of school,” he said. “I’m from California, so seeing a turkey roaming the campus blew my mind. I remember stopping a girl who was a year ahead of me to bring her attention to the fact that there was a turkey a few feet away from us. She looked at me like I was five years old.” To make matters even more confusing, Fredrickson pointed...
Former colleagues and friends also paint a picture of Rajaram as a dedicated family man, a gentle-hearted, friendly and charismatic person unafraid to speak his mind. He was extremely bright, they say, scoring virtually perfect scores on the GMAT and possessing a keen business sense. Yet there was another side to him. Karns, who lived next door to the Rajarams for eight years, says he was a "very high-strung, very intense man, very tightly wound. I would hear things. Our bedrooms were right next to each other." (The master bedrooms of their respective houses are across a fence...