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...opening work, How to Get into Medical School, Part I, is an achingly sweet love story featuring Fitzgerald and Ming, both preparing for entrance to the University of Toronto Medical School. The second installment of their tale - which, in a clever use of pacing, runs not consecutively but as the third story in this volume - charts the melancholy end of their relationship. Ming is now seeing Chen - another student and someone, as we find out later in the collection, whom she will marry - while Fitzgerald is left behind in Ottawa to retake his exams. In the finest story...
...Dadawa, was hailed (by a Western media obsessed with drawing parallels) as the "Chinese Enya" when her debut album Sister Drum was released by Warner Music in 1995. But interestingly, neither she nor Sa have presented themselves as mainstream Chinese. "To a Western ear, mainstream Chinese pop is too sweet - it sounds trivial," explains Baranovitch. "Minority artists offer something different and refreshing. There's a sense of primitiveness, spirituality and exoticism - it sells...
...tanks and troops from the parts of Georgia it had overrun so swiftly just a few days before. Under the cease-fire agreement, Russian columns are expected to pull back behind preconflict lines of control. But amid reports of further incursions into Georgia, Russia is taking its own sweet time in complying. With tanks still rumbling along roads lined with ruins, the status quo in this part of the Caucasus is gone for good, crushed by the force of arms...
...assets are tangled up with yours. If your fellow co-ho can't keep up with the mortgage or runs into other financial trouble and creditors or a bankruptcy court descends, the house could be seized. If forced to sell, you'll get half the money, but farewell, home, sweet home...
...Cove's dolphins work only about two hours a day, according to head trainer Jesse Pottebaum. You'll learn a lot--almost too much--about dolphin anatomy (don't touch the "genital slit," we were told). And the mammals, which weigh around 425 lb. (about 200 kg), are captivatingly sweet to humans. When a trainer urges you to give the animal a kiss, you'll oblige, even if you have deeply mixed feelings about man-dolphin love...