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...genesis of the book? Jennifer 8. Lee: I wrote an article in 2003 about a Chinese family that had moved from China to New York City and were now moving to Georgia to open a Chinese restaurant. Sitting with them a couple months into their journey, it just struck me that they knew nothing about opening a restaurant. And I saw Chinese restaurants through their eyes, and the strangeness of what Americans like. And I saw the real American Chinese restaurant in a real town of 750 in the foothills of the Appalachians and I was like...
...weather forecast had been for that afternoon. The OTC maintains there had been no prediction of heavy rain. However, a local bureau, MetService, is saying otherwise. What is clear is that at around 3:30 a downpour, described by OTC chief executive Grant Davidson as a "rain bomb," struck the area, causing an extremely rapid rise in the river's water level. It soared from 0.5 cubic meter to 18 cubic meters in half an hour, according to Davidson. "I have seen that amount of water but I have never seen it come down at that speed," he said. Trapped...
...President Ralph L. Bouquet ’09 said he was “struck close to home” by Lisak’s discussion of the presence of sexual violence on college campuses...
...nonetheless fails to rise above the chick-flick genre. Prinze plays Jack, a heartless and materialistic advertising executive with a soul in serious need of rescue. Enter: Jill, played by still up-and-coming actress Taryn Manning, a beautiful and charismatic young woman with a carefree attitude. Jack is struck by her positive approach to life and the two become roommates (and a pseudo-couple); but their differing outlooks continuously clash. What Jack does not know is that Jill’s liveliness spawns from her lack of time—she has been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. As Jack...
...weeks ago, I found myself discursive as the resident authority on burglary and subversion. I had a friend from high school visit for a weekend in lovely Cambridge. After I brought her around the yard and showed her the Square, the hunger struck. Of course, the average college budget precludes eating every meal at a taqueria or trattoria. So rather than follow the Donner Party’s grisly lead, we had to resort to lawlessness...