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...suit coat as if it were a T-shirt, thrusting the back over his head and turning his sleeves inside out. Then he found himself grabbing the hem, a hand on each half of the parted tail, and ripping the thing in two. Hard to break the seam at first, but once the first thread snapped, it went...

Author: By Kristie T. La, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ferris' Account Of an 'Unnamed' Mental Affliction | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

...driver, wildly popular blogger and, as his self-consciously provocative antics at the track underlined, China's most media-savvy celebrity rebel. Since 2000, when he burst onto China's literary scene at the age of 17 with his first best seller, Triple Gate, Han has shrewdly mined a seam of youthful resentment and anomie through his stories of anguished characters in their late teens and early 20s. One of China's top-earning authors, he is widely seen as a torchbearer for the generation born after the beginning of the country's opening to the outside world, a group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Han Han: China's Literary Bad Boy | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

Even as Iraq's Sunni-Shi'ite divide appears to be tenuously mending, another seam in the country's patchwork multiethnic and sectarian society is on the verge of unraveling. Territorial disputes between Arabs and Kurds - in the provinces of Nineveh, Kirkuk and Diyala - now pose a serious risk of violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arab-Kurd Tensions Could Threaten Iraq's Peace | 3/24/2009 | See Source »

...With last year’s success, [winning the ECAC] was one of our goals,” Kessler said. “But after the first few games, it didn’t seam like a realistic goal. We have pulled through and turned everything around in the right direction...

Author: By Katie Kuzma, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Opens ECAC’s Against Big Red | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...factual. But it is the character of Okura, a Japanese officer steeped in samurai values, that gives the novel real soul. Alisjahbana hits a rich seam of tragedy in Okura's battle to reconcile defeat with honor. Only by rejecting the samurai tradition of seppuku, or ritual suicide, can Okura see a future in his shattered country. Dearest to Alisjahbana's heart, of course, is Indonesia's independence, declared in the language he codified. But his depiction of Okura - as a metaphor for Japan's rebirth in a new, humanist world - is evidence of a magnanimous and rare sensibility among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Forgiving Kind | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

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