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...first-time writers, whatever their strengths, are not sufficiently well read to know against quite which predecessors they are struggling, but I think Louis knows very well,” Andreou says. “I think that it has given his writing a kind of certainty that a younger writer might not possess...
...younger rowers, the regatta was a significant bump in the road for a lightweight crew that has improved each year. For the seniors, it was a disappointing finish to seven wildly successful careers in Ivy League rowing—careers that will be remembered, most of all, for capturing the 2003 national title...
...playgrounds. In this effort, government at every level is complicit. The feds ship sloppy joe makings to grateful school-lunch programs--it's the cheapest grub available. Other schools contract for pizza and sodas from corporate purveyors while cutting back on phys-ed classes. And everyone starts getting fatter younger. And sicker younger--with all the attendant social and medical costs...
...rude awakening. Snoring away a spring-break morning at the University of Southern California in 1994, Kim picked up the phone to hear his father Sang Hoon Kim shouting at him in Korean. "He goes, 'The company's got problems. Everybody's got to help out,'" recalls the younger Kim. The son did a lot more than that. At the time, office workers were no longer buying the polyester blouses the family company, Protrend, churned out. Sales were tumbling 50% every year. What's more, the father had invested in real estate during a market peak, and as a result...
...Indian origin today own 38% of all hotels in the U.S. and more than half of budget motels. Mexican Americans whose forebears worked California's vineyards are becoming owners. Once, immigrant business owners were reluctant to pass the torch to their kids, hoping their labor would hoist the younger generation into more prestigious professions. That's changing. As the businesses grow, American-born heirs are increasingly willing to follow in their immigrant parents' footsteps. Armed with native English, advanced education and a comfort with change, the new generation is modernizing the family businesses in ways their parents never dreamed possible...