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Freed by Blindness. Born in Buenos Aires, Borges stayed to live and write, though there was plenty of reason for a writer to move. As a young lyric poet, he was condemned by the hidebound traditionalists who dominated Argentine literature. Later, when writing prose, he ran afoul of pro-Nazi Dictator Juan Peron, who banned his books. But by doggedly pursuing his writing, Borges has brought literary excitement to a country that experiences it only rarely. He has also established his own reputation among small but demanding groups of readers in Argentina and around the world. Plagued by an inherited...
year a goodly number of Undergraduates violate the stern of mighty Harvard. Whether their offense is prompted by the overindulgence of an adventurous or by rebellion against a conscience, most fledgling lawbreakers eventually run afoul Administration. Student offers provoke two types of reaction from University Hall: mild annoyance and livid rage. And the full wrath of University Hall can be called upon a student whose offense may seem to hardly worth even a rebuke...
...benefits granted the Japanese. "If anything, we are whiter in appearance than our Japanese friends." huffed one of Cape Town's leading Chinese businessmen. Demanded another in dignantly: "Does this mean that the Japanese, now that they are 'white,' cannot associate with us without running afoul of the Immorality...
...patent, but Senefelder decided to go after greater profits in London. There, unhappily, he tried for a ?3.000 prize donated by George III for a design for a dirigible. He failed to win the prize, sold his lithography patent for a pittance, and left for Vienna. He promptly ran afoul of the Viennese authorities by boasting that he had discovered a way of lithographing bank notes. He went home to Munich only to find that his brothers, to whom he had entrusted his business, had no intention of giving it back. He died at the age of 63, practically penniless...
After dropping its opening games to Williams and University of Connection, Harvard won six in a row before running afoul at Valparaiso...