For fifty years, ritualistically, he had been repeating the same jokes, laughing at them because they were so infantile and stupid

He remembers Milly's childhood fear of being deserted and the terror she experienced at the first bloody sign of womanly/wombly maturation: "Her growing pains at night […]

Premier Chiang Ching-kuo (left) visited two cooperative farms and a tidal land reclamation project in Yunlin County in south-west Taiwan March 18. He talks with a farmer in Taiwan dialect through an interpreter.

Can I bum a cigarette off you?