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...seem more likely to harbor the delusion that Lucas will actually read their letters. Then the writer must begin by describing the first time he saw Star Wars ("I was the first kid on my block to see it," "I saw it in utero," etc.). Often the writer's origin story segues into a tragedy of childhood abuse, in which his mint collection of figurines and plastic light sabers is wantonly disposed of by a female relative unaware of its estimated $3.5 million net worth...
...rest of the book is crafted with care, and its many revelations will force readers to consider the often strange routes their favorite dishes - authentic or not - took to the plate. And if you, like me, were puzzled by the origin of the fortune cookie, well, that's understandable. Lee discovers that the first fortune cookies came from Japan, where they are called tsujiura senbei. Japanese-Americans sold them in the U.S. until they were forced into internment camps during World War II. That's when Chinese restaurateurs started handing them out instead. Chinese-American cooking is all about opportunity...
...callow reporter, I dealt with Gibson when, in the shadows of his career in 1990, he was in the midst of a typically intense State of Origin campaign as the coach of New South Wales. He was clearly under stress: his reputation was on the line (Queensland had trounced N.S.W. under Gibson the previous year) and there was a whisper that, among the players, he was seen as a little out of touch. At team training one morning, while Gibson "fed the chooks," as he called speaking to journalists, I botched the phrasing of a question and he lasered...
...uphill struggle. The sums involved in the liberated capital flows were vast. By mid-1990, the foreign-exchange markets alone reached a volume of trading that exceeded $1 trillion every day - more than 40 times the value of daily global trade. Keeping track of such flows and their origin at a time when corporations, banks and private-equity firms were warning against the dangers of over-regulation has proved impossible...
...science building’s site was formerly a construction dump area, so the lions may have once graced the tops of a building somewhere in Boston, Gordon said. The development group has not yet determined from which building the lions originally came, but Gordon said they are working with a historic research company to ascertain their origin...