Word: authorly
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...state of Nigeria, but his criticism of oil companies endangered the cash flow to the ruling junta. He had actively campaigned against the environmental destruction on his tribal land caused by Shell Oil Company. As a result of Saro-Wiwa's efforts, Shell ended oil mining in the author's homeland, much to the dismay of the military junta...
...there would be a problem in moving a steel frame building as long as the building was not especially huge," said Cynthia Zaitzevsky, a lecturer on architectural history at the Radcliffe Seminars Program and the author of several articles on area architecture...
...October 9, 1995 an article appeared in the newest conservative magazine, The Weekly Standard, criticizing the government department for its affirmative action policies in graduate admissions. Characterizing the department's policy as "race norming"--an unfair admissions process where blacks are compared solely with other blacks--the author insinuates that unqualified minority students are admitted into the department and white students, as a consequence, are unfairly rejected. The article claims, in addition, that once admitted, these students are provided "free rides" irrespective of financial need. The moral of the story contrived by the article is that Harvard University...
...FOURTH NOVEL Oscar Hijuelos, author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, has produced the sort of book that might offer William Bennett hope for America's cultural future. Mr. Ives' Christmas (HarperCollins; 248 pages; $23) is an homage to religious piety, unfailing modesty and moral rectitude. At the novel's center is Ives, a man who overcame his foundling-home beginnings to become a successful Manhattan illustrator and advertising executive. Despite his position, Ives lives a life devoid of bourgeois affectation. He gives to the poor, lusts for no one but his wife and refuses to judge those...
...York City. Rifkind fought for the cream of society and the wretched of the earth. As General Eisenhower's adviser on Jewish affairs, he pushed for aid to Holocaust victims and immigration to Palestine. As a star attorney, he represented Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in actions against probing author William Manchester and prying photographer Ronald Galella...