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...novel War Trash - an exhaustively researched work about the Korean War and winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award - was his first to be set outside China. A Free Life is the first to be set in his adopted home, and he deftly conjures an American landscape of rolling, wide-open spaces spangled by brawny, glimmering rivers ("This sight beats the Yangtze," Pingping gushes, while she gazes at the "mighty and vast" Hudson, just outside New York City). There are also decent depictions of bland, sleepy McSuburbs like Lilburn, Ga. - a typical bedroom community of electricians, engineers, stucco churches and donut shops...
...history books. "It is without a doubt," says G.O.P. strategist Ralph Reed, "the most unpredictable roller-coaster ride we've seen in a Republican primary since the rise of the primary in the 1960s." Party-history buff Newt Gingrich went further: he called the G.O.P. contest the most wide-open race the party has held since 1940 - the year Wendell Willkie needed six ballots to capture the nomination before losing to F.D.R. in a third-term landslide...
...very good week of practice moving the ball, so it was good we were able to move the ball, find the open man," Harris said. "Andrew got a bunch of wide-open layups because of ball movement...
...Pipes ended up in the United States, where he learned Russian as a member of the U.S. Air Corps, the predecessor to the U.S. Air Force. “Everyone was interested in Russia largely because of World War II. Following the war, the study of Russia was a wide-open, exciting field and there were few American experts at the time,” Pipes said in an interview with The Crimson. Wisse became interested in Yiddish literature while attending graduate school in 1960. Wisse, who was studing English literature at the time, said she “decided...
...games (two receptions vs. Yale last year). Instead, you have a throwback fullback (Joe Fuccillo) who wears a cowboy collar behind his long hair and passes up touches for a chance to punch people in the mouth – who, in this golden age of the wide-open spread offense, still uses a fullback...