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...example, the old Anglican Church?across from the White Swan Hotel?languished as a warehouse for years after the Cultural Revolution; it has since reopened and resumed religious services. Walk east along Shamian Nan Jie about 200 m, past the old Butterfield & Swire offices?the Jardine Matheson godowns were up the street to your left?and you're at the former British consulate, built in 1865. Retirees often practice Cantonese opera in the park across the street...
Senior outside hitter Josh Swan led the Pioneers’ comeback, posting 24 kills, seven in the pivotal third game alone...
...doubles, the Crimson’s top team of sophomores Dave Lingman and Chris Chiou fell to Purdue’s Dan Swan and Scott Mayer by the score of 9-7. But Choo and freshman Jonathan Chu won 8-3 in second doubles, and captain Dalibor Snyder won third doubles with sophomore Mark Riddell...
...higher one climbs, meanwhile, the worse it becomes. If Harvard as a whole is a pathological place crawling with cutthroat people, then elite Harvard, land of final club boys and their swan-necked women, is just as cutthroat—only with heaps of money thrown in. There, success does not merely require unbridled ambition, it requires a steady infusion of cash. Whether you are picking up a tab at the Red Line or Daedalus, forking over the cover at Axis and Avalon, arranging that intersession trip to Barcelona or Rio de Janeiro, or shelling out for the latest designer...
...will admit that I have never been in a swan boat, never climbed to the top of the Prudential Center, never peered intently at the water that a few fiery revolutionaries once turned into tea. But I have visited China Town in wind so bitter that my hot and sour soup froze as I stepped out the door. I have driven to the Cape and back in one night just to eat ice cream before the parlors boarded their windows for the first frost. I’ve made snow angels in front of Faneuil Hall, made canolis...