The six missiles that China test-fired north of Taiwan in late July were widely interpreted as a sign of Beijing's pique over Lee's trip to the U.S. the month before to attend aclassreunion at Cornell University.
Written from the perspective of a young woman at the dawn of her adult life, her words are a stunning bookend to something David Brooks wrote about in October in the New York Times: a collection of short autobiographies that members of the Yale class of 1942 wrote for their 50th reunion.