Word: buchanans
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...Eyes of Doctor Fitzgerald,” comment, Apr. 25), we do live in an age of restless materialism and social anomie. Perhaps, though the comparison is a touch facile, our coming of age in the irrationally exuberant 1990s is just as bankrupt as that of Tom and Daisy Buchanan of Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age. And it is quite likely, though I’ve never been to it, that the Fly’s annual Gatsby party is neither nostalgic nor ironic. Yet to read “Gatsby,” as Mahtani does...
...very healthy—what every student needs!” Membership in Vino has professional perks as well. “I worked in a law firm this summer, and a lot of partners have an interest in wine,” Katherine L. Buchanan says. “It was nice to feel comfortable in a restaurant.” The benefits of Vino membership need not be so subtle. By the end of the night, only one of two Crimson reporters was left standing, a state which was more the rule than the exception. Leave...
Much of what transpired on Monday, March 13, at 610 North Buchanan is still unknown or in dispute. What is not is that late that evening, between 30 and 40 members of the Duke lacrosse team gathered at the off-campus house shared by three of the co-captains. The featured entertainment: a pair of black strippers hired for $800 by one of the co-captains using a false name...
...host at a meeting in the capital of Banjul to choose an interim President for Liberia, men with guns were very much in control. Taylor forcibly moved nearly 2,000 Nigerians and Guineans, mostly civilians seeking refuge in their embassy compounds in Monrovia, south to the port city of Buchanan, out of the reach of rescue. With Taylor's rebels shooting at Nigerian soldiers and Burkina Faso sending in troops to support Taylor, escalation of the war has already begun...
...Editors: As a World War II veteran, I am outraged that many individuals, including President Reagan and Pat Buchanan, are calling Lieut. Colonel Oliver North a national hero (NATION, Dec. 22). Whether his actions during the Iran-contra scandal merit such acclaim cannot be determined, since he won't furnish an accounting of his ventures. If the facts were known, perhaps I would agree. The continued silence of North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter is not heroic. Many servicemen have given their lives for their country. Is it asking too much for North and Poindexter also to make a sacrifice...