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Even in the cities, the Chinese people are serious about conservation. My grandmother will not throw out a single bottle or can or piece of paper and insists that the air conditioning be only minimally effective. My aunt’s new apartment has a solar-powered roof and water heaters programmed to generate more hot water only during hours of maximum use. This spirit of conservation is embraced so strongly throughout the country that I spent most my trip in China feeling like a wasteful and spoiled American...
...quarter: A 27-yard completion to Luft moves the ball to the Harvard 49. Pizzotti is getting all day to throw--the offensive line has had fantastic protection...
...quarter: Pizzotti, under pressure, is forced to throw it away and the Crimson will punt. Hull puts it out of bounds at the 10, and Yale will take over there...
...plus a huge fourth-quarter collapse by Yale plus three overtimes equals the greatest comeback I’ve ever seen.But enough math. I told you I wasn’t a math guy, and that’ll be good come tomorrow, when people always say you can throw the numbers out the window when Harvard and Yale play.It’s about the history. Which is good because, well, that’s my major. And if there’s one thing I’ve learned up here in Cambridge, at the world?...
...along with her son (Zane Pais), returns to her childhood home where her younger sister is about to be married. Kidman, relishing the role of a hovering, parental perfectionist, disapproves strongly of sister Jennifer Jason Leigh’s engagement to scatterbrained starving artist Jack Black. Throw in Kidman’s own extramarital affair with the local literary savant, a family of bizarre survivalist neighbors, Pais’ puberty issues, and one ubiquitously symbolic elm tree, and you have something close to the film’s narrative. The character dynamic, from the beginning of the film...