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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...
Fast forward to this fall and the women failed to win the Ivy League last season, two-time Junior World Championship gold medalist Emily Cross is training for the Olympics, most of the rest of the winning team has graduated, and epee has gaping holes wide enough...
...funding for students in our many graduate programs, long-standing and new alike,” Smith wrote.University President Drew G. Faust described Brandt as an “exceptionally thoughtful, collegial, and humane person” and added that she looks forward to welcoming him into the University-wide Council of the Deans.“Allan Brandt will bring extraordinary intelligence, intellectual range, organizational savvy, and concern for the welfare of students to the vital role of leading the GSAS,” she said in a statement.Brandt said he had several meetings with various members...
...McCain, already 71, would be the oldest President in history. Giuliani has so far tiptoed around the subjects of his ex-wives, his alienated children and questions about his business practices. Romney has been elected to office exactly once, has a record of changing his positions on an unusually wide range of issues, and just announced that he's a Mormon to a nation that might not otherwise have known or even cared. Though as smooth as corn syrup on the outside, preacherman Huckabee is low on cash, light on organization and may not be able to fill the pews...
...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...