One afternoon that spring, I received a call from Jimmy, who was teaching in a village near the Yangtze River.

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One afternoon this spring, at the height of the harvest, I drove through the area with Douglas Wankel, a former Drug Enforcement Administration official who was hired by the United States government in 2003 to organize its counter-narcotics effort here.

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He spent 13 minutes on a conference call with reporters Thursday afternoon, one of his lengthier and more cordial sessions of the spring, but he never did reveal any details behind perhaps the biggest story of the series so far: his decision to bench star forward Marian Gaborik for much of the third period in Game 2.

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On this spring afternoon, in 1930, they were playing Piggy on a Bounce -- one guy with a bat, everyone else in the field, and one guy would hit till someone caught the ball, or caught it on one bounce, and then the batter had to take the field.

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