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Behind the aura of championships won (two) and records broken (countless) is an overgrown kid who unabashedly downloads Avril Lavigne songs and enjoys calling his friends in the middle of lecture. Repeatedly...
While the main dishes are satisfactorily pungent and filling, it’s the injera that’s most memorable. The flat bread is best described as an overgrown porous tortilla with a bit of a bounce, and it’s primarily responsible for the loosening of your belt by the end of the evening. Made with t’eff, a protein- and calcium-heavy grain, the injera serves as both eating utensil and serving dish. Suffice to say there’s a lot of it, and even if you’re full to bursting...
...will ever get to participate in any single Summer Olympics. The cruelty of a system that enlists so many children and brings success to so few has led even the victorious to question the nation's obsession with Olympic glory. Xiao Jian, a lanky 30-year-old with an overgrown buzz cut, came to the Guangdong Sports Technology Institute?one rung higher on the sports hierarchy than Weilun?as a fencer back in 1989. At last year's national games, he was the men's ?p?e champion. But he was left off this year's Olympic roster due to what...
...against the iron of Buckingham Palace, throwing my lanky frame around an exorbitant mega-disco, spinning dumbly at the continuous vroom of oblivious Ferraris. A few years ago, staring despondently across Kensington Gardens through a late spring haze, I found myself looking into the far reaches of the old, overgrown empire—fertile Punjab farms, the plains of Kenya, the plantations of Virginia. The finished postcard canvas was cold and foreboding: Ferraris and investment banks and high manners alongside Wordsworth’s thronged alleys; abject poverty beside obscene wealth is a good place to write history or poetry...
...beneath and 11 others to instructors or to students of the College, it would seem that some steps should be taken to improve its appearance,” wrote W.G. Stearns on Oct. 23, 1856 on behalf of the superintendent of Mount Auburn Cemetery, who complained about a path overgrown with grass and the lack of a boundary around the plot...