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...exquisitely sensuous prose. The sisters are the title characters of the book, and there is much female activity, including cooking, childbearing and lovemaking, but Hijuelos is much too macho a writer to surrender himself entirely to a feminine -- don't even think about feminist -- world. Thus a big chunk of the book focuses on brother Emilio's exploits as he fights in Italy during World War II, beds his way through postwar Greenwich Village, beats the odds in Hollywood, where he plays Tarzan and Sam Spade-style detectives in B movies, and eventually gains fame as a celebrity photographer...
Alexandra M. Molnar '96 was walking home Monday afternoon when an eight-inch chunk of ice and snow slid from the roof of Boylston Hall and fell on her head...
When the larger slab of ice hit her, Molnar said she "leaned over but did not lose consciousness. My head went numb. "The chunk made a three-inchcut on the back of her head, which bled profusely, she said...
...suggest a two-year program that begins at age three, with follow-up instruction that lasts through the fourth grade. A plan worth its promise would not only mandate two years of Head Start for those most in need but also award schoolchildren in the lower grades a larger chunk of the $6 billion annually authorized under Chapter 1, the nation's primary source of federal funds for education. Those dollars are currently spread thinly in a pork-barrel scheme that reaches 90% of all congressional districts -- the price for the political support required to keep Chapter 1 alive. "Unless...
...supply ice cream at the Union and fund a host of other miscellaneous line items in the University's budget. Most importantly, it is alumni giving that supports Harvard's need-blind admissions policy and doles out colossal amounts of financial aid to students each year (including a hefty chunk of cash to this writer...