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...Russian. But I do not possess a true cultural identity. I am a mongrel—an improbable amalgam of Midwestern white trash and New York City Jew (which makes for an interesting holiday season, culinarily speaking). Back home, I took my status as a cultural chameleon in stride. In my eastern Massachusetts hometown, where your roots need to extend five generations before you’re counted as native, and where non-natives are branded “wash-ashores” even after fifty years’ residency, my lack of cultural identity didn’t seem...
Fitzpatrick nailed Byrnes in stride coming across the middle of the field and Byrnes was off to the races. And just like that, Harvard was within seven...
...Carter and most of Yates' other neighbors did not know about Ming. Even in a city in which residents pride themselves on taking things in stride, a 425-lb. tiger in a fifth-floor apartment is a bit much. "How the hell did he keep it around here so damn long?" wonders Theodore Dixon, another neighbor. "What if he'd opened the door and it ran out? There are kids in this building. It probably would have bit them." In the end, it was Yates who was bitten, and although he first claimed that he had been attacked...
...Dress like Lila” party was an eye opener for Gollogly. “I was a little alarmed at the slutty nature of everything,” she says. But she took it all in black-booted stride, dressed in a “bling necklace,” faux fur coat, skimpy skirt and black triangle bikini top. And despite her emphasis on stylistic independence, Gollogly’s roommates reveal that influence works both ways. “That top,” Perry says with a smirk, “was actually mine...
...think we’ve taken it in stride,” senior right tackle Joe Mujalli said. “When a new guy enters the line, it’s up to the guys who’ve been there the week before to step up and provide a little leadership...