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...slice grainy-ass bread...
...slice white bread...
Elsewhere, the lines and the motives for standing in them, are much the same. In Beijing another line of 150 represents a far smaller slice of the general population, in part because the regime continues to frown on emigration. Still, a young lawyer explains why he wants to go to Meiguo, the Beautiful Country, the Mandarin name for America: "My colleagues tried to discourage me from going," he says. "But I feel I have to improve myself." In a displaced-persons camp on the outskirts of Nairobi, a cheery Somali is also waiting patiently to go to America...
...Pacific Coast Highway, down a little farther, life resumes. On Wendt Terrace, the only thing burning now is a lamp in the living room of Gary Pattengill's home. The house is safe; the master is home. The garden hose, vessel of hope and defender of one slice of the American Dream, lies quietly on the roof...
After five straight overtime contests and a long 4-7-3 season with all the emotional satisfaction of a slice of stale buttered bread, the Harvard field hockey team finally put forth one of its best efforts and closed out the season yesterday with a win over Brown in Providence...