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...novelists under 40 have a shared preoccupation, it is--to put it as dryly as possible--immigration. They write about characters who cross borders, from East to West, from Old World to New and back again, and the many and varied tolls they pay along the way. Their shared project, to the extent that they have one, is the revision of the good old American immigrant narrative, bringing it up to code with the realities of our multicultural, transcontinental, hyphenated identities and our globalized, displaced, deracinated lives. It's a literature of multiplicity and diversity, not one of unanimity...
...about $37. It’s especially difficult to imagine what this means while volunteering at the Luoyang Welfare Institute, a state-run home for 500 orphans and foundlings, a majority of them disabled. What does it mean to buy three packs of macaroni for an arts and crafts project at 24 yuan, when that same amount could feed eight, clothe at least one, or pay for five haircuts? Should we spend more on food and supplies for the kids—hardly a burden on our wallets—when they wouldn’t expect such things anyway...
...project that is expected to last until September, a team of workers is repainting and resculpting the picturesque Eliot House tower this summer in an attempt to return it to its 1930s appearance...
...contracting and construction management firm Shawmut Design and Construction is coordinating the project. After workers resculpt the missing sections of the cornices, the cornices will be covered with HyPoxy mold—a resin-water bond agent...
McNeil predicted that the tower’s colors will look noticeably brighter in the fall. He said that the project aims to make the tower look as it did when it was first opened in 1931. The Cambridge Historical Society inspected the paint colors Tuesday afternoon and confirmed that they matched the original colors closely, McNeil said...