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...telling of Nan's story, however, that the book really falls flat. Rather predictably, the swift transition from starving student-poet to middle-class business owner leaves him spiritually barren. He spends grueling days behind a fiery wok pondering how to balance his duty as a breadwinner with his duty as a poet. His writer friends are getting noticed, and he's not. (If you read his verses, appended at the end of the book, you'll see why. "Don't blame me if I am such a man/ who goes to ball games as a major fan," Nan chimes...
...Crimson matches up extremely well with the Wildcats. Speed has been Harvard’s forte this season, as the Crimson features a swift batch of forwards headlined by Vaillancourt along with the blistering Minnesota duo of rookie Katharine Chute and sophomore transfer Anna McDonald and freshman Ukranian import Liza Ryabkina...
...seats. Apparently our Yankee menu caused quite a sensation, and people all around us were staring and pointing. Finally, one young Southern gentleman, seated several seats to the right in the row below us, became so curious that he yelled, "What are they eating?" The answer was swift and tinged with horror from those seated immediately in front of us: "Custard pie and uncooked vegetables!" We still get a chuckle over that "tailgate party...
...ministry has already decided to shut down some of the worst orphanages and place the children under more appropriate care, Ljajic said, but added that the problem is so huge that it would take years to contain it. "After decades of neglect, there are no swift solutions," he said...
...want to send a clear signal that we, like so many people around the world, expect swift action to end the suffering of the Sudanese people,” Patrick said, according to a statement released by his office. “The Sudanese government must take a strong stand against the genocide in their country, and bring real relief and progress to the people of the region...