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Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt. Two contemporary British scholars, one male, one female, try to collect evidence about a presumed love affair between two Victorian poets, one male, one female. Antonia Byatt, who until recently has been known chiefly as Margaret Drabble's older sister, comes into her own as a novelist (and romancer) of dazzling inventiveness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of '90: Books | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

AASU members plan to collect textbooks' dropped in bins near the first- and second-year mailboxes in Aldrich Hall at the Harvard Business School. Although the collection bins are at the Business School, book drive leaders said they hope both graduate and undergraduate students will participate in the project...

Author: By David J. Lepley, | Title: African Students Group Launches a Book Drive | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

...place at medical school is valuable because of a variety of social and governmental policies that reduce opportunities to deliver health care and increase the incomes of doctors. Restrictive licensing laws forbid nurses and paramedics to perform simple tasks (or, in reality, allow doctors to collect a middleman's fee). Medical-school places are limited. Medicare and Medicaid expand the market for doctors' services, while doing little to promote competition on price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What's Really Fair | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

...Giorgio said in an interview yesterday that the money the club had collected would not be used until the winter. The club normally does not collect their dues until January...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, | Title: Dems, GOP Criticize Council | 11/15/1990 | See Source »

...been slow in coming. The kingdom has received only $4 million of the $50 million pledged by international relief organizations to help it cope with the flood of refugees. While Washington has agreed to deliver the $50 million it pledged to Jordan before the crisis, Amman has yet to collect any money from the U.S., which resents Hussein's ambiguity toward Saddam. Most Jordanians believe that significant relief from the West will come only if Hussein subscribes wholeheartedly to the U.S. position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with King Hussein: Facing a No-Win Scenario | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

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