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...center is the writer's bond with her mother, an uneducated but adept midwife who, in vintage American style, inspired her children to make something of themselves by seizing opportunities she never had. Her foibles and uproarious back-country ways are evoked unflinchingly but without disrespect. It is a measure of Holland's gifts (and of Bruce's acting) that the mother never seems a plaster saint, even when she is a true martyr -- fatally burned in a house fire that was apparently retaliation for the daughter's civil rights activism...
Harvard's strength is its ability to push the ball upfield from both sides. Clark, Fowler and Gaffney have proven very adept in transitions this year. Once Harvard pushes the ball into the Tiger end they will have to match Princeton's aggressiveness and force corners, its best offensive weapon...
...that Bonn's intelligence officials would like to tap. There are estimates that as many as 400 former spies from his old organization remain under cover in Germany and may be working for the KGB or other intelligence agencies. Wolf has sworn in recent interviews -- and he is already adept in Western ways, reportedly charging tens of thousands of dollars for each session -- that he will not be turning anyone in. But even if the spymaster's "principles" prevent him from making a deal, he also commands a trove of damaging information about the private lives of many German politicians...
...years," or "It's only my brother." Many times they will find a great deal of support in this denial from other members of their family, their spouses or their friends, who do not . want to talk about incest any more than the victims do. Men are particularly adept at trying to downplay the effects of abuse. "It was just supposed to be part of growing up," says Harold Watson, 38, an artist in New York City...
Besides being adept at these social functions, Mackay says, Rudenstine is very much interested in the substance of the education of first-years. She says Rudenstine and new Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles have expressed particular concern over the teaching of introductory science courses...