Word: obvious
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...pleasure lies in the piquancy of the writer-state pairings. Some are more obvious--heavy hitter Jonathan Franzen handles New York. Some are less so--imagine the editors' relief when they remembered that Jhumpa Lahiri hails from tiny Rhode Island (which, as she points out, is not an island!). There's something about their home state that puts writers in confessional moods. Picture Anthony Bourdain lighting M-80s ("It's a quarter stick a dynamite!!") as a j.d. in Jersey or a teenage Joshua Ferris cruising the canals of Florida with Jimmy Buffett (at the time he didn't know...
...friend from Shanghai leaned over to share her shameful secret: "I watched some of the Olympics," she said, in a tone of voice implying that this was a transgression akin to sleeping with her best friend's boyfriend or - even worse in this fashion-crazed city - toting an obvious knock-off handbag. For months, many citizens of China's most populous city gritted their teeth as Beijing got all the glory. But now that the Olympics are over, Shanghai is determined to reclaim the title of China's most happening metropolis. Just four days after the Summer Games' closing ceremony...
...After ’87, we stayed in South Africa, but I later attended high school in Australia at an all-girls school. 2. FM: You went to an all-girls school for high school? CD: All my life before Harvard, actually, yeah. 3. FM: Well then, besides the obvious allure of our strapping male population, what brought you to Harvard in the first place? CD: My older sister applied to Harvard on a whim and got in, and then off she went. She’d never been to America before. When I applied two years later, I hadn?...
...fray over the weekend, sources say, and within days committed to buy a strategic stake, which includes a seat on the Morgan Stanley board. With the U.S. Federal Reserve now compelling both Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to operate as commercial rather than investment banks, CEO John Mack sees obvious benefits from a tie-up with the Tokyo giant. "Mitsubishi UFJ would be a valuable partner as we transition to a bank holding company and build our bank services and deposit base," Mack said...
Still, with the launch of the first "Google phone," it doesn't take a journalist to notice the obvious signs of history repeating itself. Is Steve Jobs, whose iPhone is the toast of the telecommunications world, doomed to relive the mistakes of the past...