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...many cultural products compete for the public attention, to bring forth yet another work of this kind - to spend a book pondering, as Nan does, the question, "Do you have to live a literary life to produce literary work?" - is risky indeed. Ha Jin's demotic prose is as smooth as Windexed glass, but A Free Life lacks the dark, propulsive verve of his earlier work. And in the end, Nan Wu is little more than another entry in the world's brimming catalog of literary pretenders...
...allows himself to talk about actually being President, recites a litany almost as familiar as the O'Reilly twins joke: He has experience, courage, honor. He often says he's the only true conservative in the race. And indeed, for voters to choose those familiar traits over the smooth optimism of Romney, he would need to be a very true kind of conservative indeed...
...Japanese, by contrast, prefer white or silver hues.) "With the U.S. and Japan, everyone expects there to be big differences in terms of business culture," says TV director Zhang. "But with China and Japan, even Japanese are often surprised that we don't operate the same way." To smooth the waters - even the channel between the two countries is called the East Sea by the Chinese and the Sea of Japan by the Japanese - head-hunting firm Meitec runs six-month training programs in five Chinese cities for engineers who wish to work for Japanese companies. Some later relocate...
...fruitless search, the shattered remains of his vessel were found on a local beach six weeks later. Despite this evidence, suspicion lingered that there was something incongruous about an experienced kayaker drowning on a day when the sea was, in the words of one member of the rescue effort, "smooth as a millpond." Even before it emerged that the Darwins had reunited in Panama, his aunt, Margaret Burns, 80, told the Evening Standard newspaper, "To be honest I don't believe he ever got wet." She may be right...
...purchase is a critical and exciting step for Harvard. As part of the exchange, Harvard will build brand new replacement housing units on a nearby parcel of land, a prospect about which many residents currently seem pleased. We are aware, however, that the negotiation process was not always smooth, particularly in its early days. Harvard’s final deal with Charlesview shows that Harvard has improved considerably in working with an awareness of the needs of the Charlesview residents and the Allston community...