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...That character is Daru, a bank employee in his late 20s who gets smart with a senior client and loses his job. He finds comfort in an affair with his best friend's wife, a homemaker named Mumtaz with a second career as an undercover journalist. We learn early on that our primary narrator (the first person switches frequently among the main characters) has been involved in a botched robbery, and is now on trial for murder. The evidence sounds damning, although we are not told the specifics of the case until much later in the book. The story...
...vicissitudes of The Crimson's "logical contradictions" with regards to the Burton affair are profoundly disturbing. Your editorial "The Students Should Decide" (Editorial, Feb. 7) states that "the students should decide whether or not" the alleged misconduct of Undergraduate Council Vice President John A. Burton '01 was "truly serious enough to warrant removal from what is a primarily bureaucratic office." Your editorial "Burton Should Step Down" (Editorial, Feb. 14) also claims that such "a decision should be left to the students" but refers to the alleged misconduct as "fact" and confidently claims that because "a majority of the Council...
Last Tuesday, however, the nation's once-passionate love affair with "Millionaire" went dry as television watchers found something bigger and better--or at least richer and seemingly illegal...
...nearly eight months, the nation has engaged in a sordid love affair. Although the romance has been undoubtedly strong and faithful, it has been eccentric and abnormal as well. Conversation abruptly ends whenever ABC closes the telephone lines. Visitation rights have been suspended so the nation can ogle Regis only three times a week. No matter what the complications or the concessions, however, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" has won sweetheart status across the nation...
...rival in vitriol is James Thomson Callender, wanted for sedition in his native Scotland. He was Jefferson's hit man who, when slighted by the Sage of Monticello, spread informed innuendo about his arrangement with slave and lover Sally Hemings. Public reaction to the disclosure makes the Clinton-Lewinsky affair look like a casual game of spin the bottle...