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...dangerous to recite poetry, because it is so easy to sound pretentious or uncomfortable and thus to ruin it, but my friend recited in a low clear fine voice. “Oh, lovely,” I said. High above us, the tire swing rope creaked against the tree branch, sighed, and creaked again. He said: “But now I only hear/ Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,/ Retreating, to the breath/ Of the night wind, down the vast edges drear/ And naked shingles of the world...
Eagles rather than doves nestle in the Oval Office Christmas tree, pinecones the size of footballs are piled around the fireplace, and the President of the United States is pretty close to lounging in Armchair One. He's wearing a blue pinstripe suit, and his shoes are shined bright enough to shave in. He is loose, lively, framing a point with his hands or extending his arm with his fingers up as though he's throwing a big idea gently across the room...
...Yiwu's main intersection, the Vivi Bright Wedding Photo Studio has installed fake evergreens, mounds of Styrofoam pellets masquerading as snow, and a white picket fence outside its storefront. "People want their wedding pictures in front of a Christmas tree because Christmas is modern," explains Hu Hanbang, the studio's manager. Hu plans to dress as St. Nick on Christmas Eve and give away picture frames in red envelopes of the sort that Chinese distribute over Lunar New Year...
...that became known as the Panmunjom incident. On Aug. 18, 1976, two American officers were hacked to death with axes and metal pikes by a band of North Korean border guards. The melee broke out after the North Koreans tried to stop American and South Korean soldiers from trimming tree branches that blocked the line of sight. The North Koreans expected retaliation for the killings. "They mobilized for war instantly," Jenkins says. "Everybody evacuated and joined up with their units. It was very tense. Me, I just went home." Over the next several years, Jenkins says, he was forced...
Murray M. Turnbull is sitting in a chair in front of his family’s Christmas tree, watching a game of chess online. With his scruffy brown beard fading to white and a belly bulging against the buttons of his shirt, he could easily be mistaken for Santa Claus...