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...book reading last night at Loker Commons, Chang read passages about her mother's life from her first book, Beyond the Narrow Gate: The Journey of Four Chinese Women From the Middle Kingdom to Middle America. The book chronicles her mother's journey from China to Taiwan in the late 1940s and finally to the United States...
...title symbol of Chang's memoir, however, is that of the 'narrow gate' which marked the entrance to her mother's high school, the First Girls School, or Bei-yi-nu, in Taiwan...
...protector of Weed's sheep is a six-year-old llama named Cyrus, an animal best known for its thick, shaggy coat and its agility on narrow alpine trails. Here on the flatland expanse at the base of the snow-capped Bridger Mountains, the brown and white beast walks guard duty amid a sea of much smaller brown and white woolly bodies. Deceptively spry despite his goofy appearance, the llama struts and shuffles among the flock, craning his head from one side of the field to another while occasionally stopping to munch on grass clumps in the crusty, frozen earth...
Anna Giordano was only 15 when she found her true calling. In 1981, near her Sicilian hometown of Messina, she watched helplessly as poachers unleashed their fire from cement bunkers on the hundreds of honey buzzards, hawks and other birds migrating over the narrow straits between Sicily and the Italian mainland. After seeing 17 birds shot out of the sky, she vowed that "this was the beginning of the end for the poachers...
...case of too little, too late. "The Bob Jones appearance showed a surprising lack of appreciation for the way that campaigning has changed," says TIME Washington correspondent Jay Carney. "You can't narrow-cast a message for a target audience anymore and think that other audiences won't find out about it. The Bush camp thought they could go after Christian conservatives in South Carolina and the rest of the country wouldn't notice. They were wrong...