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Drop down another two generations. I am only one-eighth Chinese, with red hair and freckles. People often ask me where I fit in and how I define myself. My answer has to do with where I grew up and what I saw around me. Fong See had four wives, as Chinese traditional codes dictate for men with great wealth and prowess, so the Chinese side of my family in Los Angeles numbers close to 400, with only a handful that look like me. It's been 130 years since my great-great-grandfather left China, and we've become...
...years they have pretended they were going to make it. It was all going quite well until last week, when I got an e-mail from Lauren Zalaznick, senior vice president of original programming at VH1. She was forwarding notes she had written on the eighth version of my script, most of which were smart and helpful. It also had these comments she forgot to delete: "acts II and III are bizarrely rough--amateurish, not funny, awful structure"; "i'm actually shocked that anyone thinks it's good enough to turn in as a first draft, let alone a finished...
...Ramones' pile-driver attack. Nothing fancy, no filigrees or solos. Johnny's guitar emerging from the Marshall stacks behind him was like a storm-surf breaking on your face. You could feel the pressure on your chest, just like you could feel Dee Dee's down-picked tonic eighth notes (no one ever strummed in the Ramones) in your stomach and bowels. Tommy's drums were metronomic, massive with almost no fills, just sledgehammer kick and snare...
However, five more Catamount tallies in the seventh secured Vermont's third win over the Crimson this season, despite catcher Hopps' solo home run in the eighth and two more Harvard runs off of Dennis Moser in the final frame...
UMass, and primary face-off man senior Jeff Seals, have been dominant at the stripe this season with a .627 winning percentage going into yesterday's game. Seals is ranked eighth in the nation in the face-off, taking 125 of 200 draws for a .625 average...