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John McCain has 22 pets, including a ferret, two turtles, and three parakeets. Mike Huckabee has just two: a black Labrador named Jet and a Shih Tzu with the oddly non-conformist name of Sonic. As First Lady, Hillary Clinton wrote a book titled, “Dear Socks, Dear Buddy” featuring letters that children had written to the First Pets, but now she just has Seamus the Labrador. Barack Obama has no pets, but true to the politics of hope, he has promised his two daughters he will get a dog when the election finishes...
...Crimson football game for the past two years.At this year’s Harvard-Yale game, Liles played “Little Crimson Riding Hood.” She was eaten by the big bad Yale Bulldog—and then John Harvard saved the day. Blockmate Tzu-Ying Chuang ’10 calls Liles’s performance persona “her alter ego.” “Normally, she’s not the kind of person to go up and talk to people. On the field, she’s like a totally...
...apiece. About 60 visitors browsed through the neatly folded piles of clothing, munching on homemade frittata and crème brulée French toast that had been cooked in the Women’s Center kitchen by Director Susan B. Marine and Staff Assistant Bridget K. Duffy. Tzu-Ying Chuang ’10 said that she was looking for a tank top. “You can’t really have anything specific in mind because it’s very haphazard, but you can definitely get lucky,” she said. After hearing from...
...this respect, Wong's poetry differs from that of older Singaporean poets such as Edwin Thumboo and Lee Tzu Pheng, who typically concerned themselves with questions of national and cultural identity (indeed, Thumboo has spoken of Wong's "remarkable inwardness"). Wong worries less about his cultural provenance and more about his own isolation amid the boom and bustle of the cityscape. In one poem, he bemoans his distance from his mother: she "sits in front/ of the television every day,/ afloat in a dress too large/ for her body, fanning herself/ with a magazine, feigning contentment." He compares his father...
...Tzu's advice to keep friends close and enemies closer was wise for many reasons, including this one: if you don't, your enemies will draw close to each other. At the moment, Russia is building a $1billion nuclear reactor in Iran; Ahmadinejad is basking in his first state visit from a major world leader...