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...closing, let me urge that we not waste more precious time and energies in recriminations about who is at "fault" for the decline in minority applications. ultimately the responsibility must be mine as Dean of Admissions. The more important matter at hand is to work together--students, faculty, administration, and alumni--to improve Harvard's image among minorities and to reach out and contact the many promising students who for one reason or another have chosen not to apply here. The job will not be easy and it will require sustained, cooperative efforts by all of us over a period...
...city's streets, many people are selling precious heirlooms to raise money for tickets abroad. The Chinese of Cholon, long the city's most sagacious businessmen, are shuttering their shops and slipping away to the coast, where they hope to find ships that will take them to Malaysia. The scenes at Saigon's banks are reminiscent of the financial panic that gripped Shanghai shortly before it fell to the Chinese Communists a quarter-century ago. Each morning hordes of Saigonese besiege the banks to withdraw their life savings. Almost to a man, Saigon's Indian haberdashers...
...your allotment of air, although one person, who had to go to the men's room, did take his shoes off and implanted them firmly in the puddle of beer in which he had been standing for the past three innings. His hope was to reserve and protect his precious space; needless to say, the space was taken and the shoes were stolen...
...three stubbornly become sharper and sharper, and the moments of unity shorter and shorter. By the end of the book, the letters convey no bitterness but only a sense of disappointment and exhaustion. Not all was in vain, though. On the contrary, there seems to be something very precious even in that shared disappointment. As one Maria says in her final letter...
Moreover, the Romagnolis are, unselfconsciously, one of the most delightful comedy teams on television. She burbles over about candied fruits ("precious little jewels") and onions ("in there being rather happy turning translucent"). His English is improvised, but he ad-libs gamely on discovering that his model for "how to tell a live clam" is quite dead. When he despairs over potholes in his pastry dough, Margaret comforts him: "pastry and pasta are always volatile." Their show is cooking con brio, best enjoyed with a hearty glass of country red and one of the Romagnolis' toasts from old Abruzzi...