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Although the politically correct word for it is the “holiday season,” the weeks after Thanksgiving and until New Year’s Day are dominated by Christmas. Wreaths of holly spring up in shopping malls and on public boulevards. Christmas trees at the White House and the Rockefeller Center are lit to great fanfare and the sound of Christmas caroling wafts through many public places...
...meeting with the village headman, an ex-opium farmer turned communist cadre, the narrator's violin is adjudged a stupid and bourgeois city toy. To prove differently he plays a Mozart sonata. "What's it called?" challenges the headman. Mozart Is Thinking of Chairman Mao is Luo's politically correct and resourceful?if grossly inaccurate?response...
Mincing garlic focuses this attention. Blending pine nuts and basil into pesto, caramelizing onions, stirring chicken broth into risotto until precisely the correct amount of liquid has evaporated, sprinkling a touch more turmeric into a pot of chicken curry—these things are all food focuses, they nurture the part of my brain that inevitably wanders to the pantry. but they are productive and do not involve eating. I know this is sort of an alarming thing to say; however much olive oil I use in place of butter to create healthy meals, the root of my love...
...future for weeks—months, even. Judy Murray, recruiting director at the Office of Career Services (OCS), kindly warned us of our extraordinary troubles back in the month of September. And, as evidenced by this fall’s recruiting performance, her prophecy has proven to be categorically correct: there is simply less money to spend, and far fewer jobs to offer...
...These are among the thousand that surrendered yesterday, correct? Yeah 800. They're all here. There's wild rumors that this must have been a plan, in fact, to surrender and then try and take the fort from the inside. That's NA speculation...