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...what you’re thinking: Harvard social life moves at the speed of a 19th century coach, not a Ferrari. But when you arrive on campus in the middle of the year, fresh out of a painful breakup with the girl who may have pulled you to the Northeast in the first place, all the while watching people trickle in from warm-weather intersession trips cracking inside jokes in the dining hall in groups of eight to 12, you begin to feel very small. You are a floater, a piece of paperwork for the house administration, and, more often...
...beach. Instinct told him to ride his bike quickly away to safety. Four of his friends died, and he watched children scrambling and screaming before they were swallowed by the waves. In the days after the tsunami, Buncha says, he had considered moving back home to the northeast of Thailand, as many of his friends did. But now, as each day brings the opening of a new business and each week sees a slight increase of tourists on the sand, he has decided to stay. "I have too, boss," he says with a smile. "How else will you get back...
...satire that has made him one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers. His Red Sorghum was turned into a prizewinning 1987 movie by director Zhang Yimou and picked by Chinese readers in a 1996 poll as their favorite novel. Mo Yan's Northeast Gaomi County, a fictional realm based on his hardscrabble hometown in the eastern province of Shandong, is as vivid a spot on the literary landscape as William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha or Thomas Hardy's Wessex. Kenzaburo Oe, a Japanese winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is among many admirers...
...celebration of the power of women?as well as a lament about the fecklessness of men?in the world's oldest phallocracy. Mo Yan tells the story of Shangguan Lu, born in the last days of the Qing dynasty, raised with bound feet and married off to an infertile Northeast Gaomi blacksmith who is, she concludes, "a useless gob of snot outside the house and totally subservient in front of his mother." Desperate for a son, the girl cultivates a succession of other dolts and losers, who give her seven consecutive daughters?named Laidi (Brother Coming), Pandi (Brother Anticipated), Niandi...
...Harvard are narrow,” and he wanted to find a way to hang out with friends and classmates in a setting other than a crowded room party. He plans his trips using ideas from Curious New England, a book with odd and offbeat destinations in the Northeast, and asking other members for recommendations...