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...also has Australia, specifically a vast sheep farm near Canberra owned by Harry and Liz Barton. Liz's mother BB (short for Betty Beauchamp) lives on the place, growing more gaga and malevolent by the day. Worse, Younger Sister Josie arrives from New York City for a Christmas visit, along with her son Alex and her still smoldering passion for Liz's husband. Naturally, family feuds overshadow all those exotic wallabies, kangaroos and kookaburras. But not before Murdoch turns a few deft landscapes and some surprisingly sympathetic portraits of the men trapped in a female fantasy...
...finally tragedy, and it houses enough intrigue to fill a shelf. Here is the gigantic face of Mussolini, carved out of East African rock, a modern sphinx without a secret. Here is Haile Selassie, dwarfed behind a desk only slightly smaller than an aircraft carrier. Here is Sir Sidney Barton, the eccentric British envoy who provided the model for Sir Samson Courteney in Evelyn Waugh's farce Black Mischief. Here are camels and trucks, scimitars and machine guns, lions and airplanes in a clash of politics and, more significantly, of centuries. It is a tribute to Mockler that...
DENVER, Colo.—After a hard game played in hot weather and high altitude, Harvard was on the verge of a one-goal win only to see victory evaporate in the final seconds of play as the Pioneers (5-2) snatched a 9-8 win at Peter Barton Stadium...
While an October 2004 vendor summary shows that there are about 30 such contractors in all, Harvard’s largest, most visible providers are Sodexho USA, which supplies workers in food service; UNICCO, which handles maintenance; and the Allied-Barton, which employs all security guards on campus. Sodexho and UNICCO workers are unionized in HEREIU and SIEU, respectively. Allied workers are not unionized...
...ALLIED BARTON-SECURITY...