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...wise enough to avoid making race the central theme of his work. Instead he just puts Asian Americans into funny, compelling stories that would typically feature "white" characters. The titular tale, for example, owes far more to Dan Clowes' "Ghostworld" than to Amy Tan's "Joy Luck Club." The longest and best of the book's pieces, "Same Difference" features Simon and Nancy, two dorky twenty-something best friends living in Oakland, California who bicker over pop-culture and local weirdoes. The story follows the two of them as Simon semi-reluctantly drives Nancy to Pacifica in order...
Citing the Islamic world as a significant national security threat, Nye stressed the importance of soft power as a way to avoid antagonizing moderates to extremism...
...Rodin hung a 10 on the scoreboard and the stubborn winds hinted they would linger throughout the day, both crews were swapped for taller, slightly heavier reserves at the expense of the familiarity that had served both teams so well in the first third of the regatta to avoid a costly capsize. Senior Clemmie Everett joined Tulloch for the day’s four remaining races, while senior Caroline Dixon served as Devlin’s crew for the seventh race...
...index and rank websites in the order of how often they were linked to--and to return search results in that order. The two were so certain of their idea's merits that they quit school to start a company. Their business naivete was a plus, helping them avoid many common mistakes of the dotcom age. For instance, the site went live before Page and Brin had thought to hire a webmaster. So while search giants like Yahoo were filling their home pages with news headlines, stock quotes and sports scores, Google had nothing but a search box and logo...
...screenwriter is rarer than you would think. And not just obvious ideas like killer aliens or making your children really, really small. Kaufman's ideas for movies (Being John Malkovich, Human Nature, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) come from the part of your psyche you avoid. His scripts upend time, logic and the laws of physics, and in the process of writing them, he has upended many of the conventions of Hollywood films. But what makes Kaufman, 45, the screenwriter to watch in Hollywood isn't his ideas or that he has created sadly sweet protagonists more convincing...