Entries by AlanPaul

More hoops talk

Ben Osborne wrote:The Pistons did look really good last night–and have all season. The game was on NBATV last night, which now carries at least one game every night that TNT or ESPN don’t. They use local announcers but put the NBATV fonts on the screen. In any event, maybe the channel over there will […]

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Digging into some hoops

It’s hard to describe how happy I was when I went to the gym this afternoon, got on the bike, flipped on the Tv, turned to Sports Plus to see if any football was on and stumbled onto the Pistons/King s game — on Pistons TV no less, with homer announcers. They looked great, too. […]

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R.I.P Cresenta Fernando

I have met quite a few World Bank people here and Cresenta Fernando has come up in conversation with them several times. This has caused me to think about him quite a bit and I wanted to pause and pay him tribute. As many of you know, my (sort of, almost) cousin Ariele Cohen married […]

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R.I.P Cresenta Fernando

I have met quite a few World Bank people here and Cresenta Fernando has come up in conversation with them several times. This has caused me to think about him quite a bit and I wanted to pause and pay him tribute. As many of you know, my (sort of, almost) cousin Ariele Cohen married […]

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Family trip to the Wall

Last Friday, Becky took the day off of work and we took the kids out of school, rented a van for the day and headed out to the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall, with Hal and Ruth., They were leaving the next morning and we wanted to get out there with them and have […]

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Escaping Chinese products

Twice a week, the “bread man” comes around our neighborhood with his little car filled with fresh baked bread, rolls, pizza, cookies. We usually buy rolls and cinammon bread and pizza. The kids love it. Jacob has come to call him “the bread master,” which is how he is now known. Last week, anna ran […]

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R.I.P. bluesmen

Pictured from the top: Little Milton, Son Seals, Gatemouth Brown, RL Burnside An obituary for three great blues guitarists who recently died, from the current GW. Below that I will paste in an obit for Son Seals, from about six months ago. Gatemouth, Son and Milton were three of my favorites. I can’t honestly say […]

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Take that Phil Jackson

Hey, my friend and former colleague Scoop Jackson puts Phil Jackson on blast today and I love it. Great job, Scoop. I long ago tired of that phony jerk’s schtick. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=jackson/051101

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Halloween in China

Our first Halloween in China was a success. They do it up pretty big time in the compounds and the kids were able to double dip. They celebrated on Saturday at River Garden, where we used to live, and we went up there with Kathy Chen and her family for trick or treating, haunted houses […]

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