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...Hunt, the engaging founder of the Billionaire Boys Club, a high-living confederation of some 30 youths from rich families in the Los Angeles area, Ronald Levin was a con man who bilked him in a phony investment scheme before disappearing in June 1984. To the authorities, Levin was the victim of a revenge murder that Hunt planned and carried out with such thoroughness that the body has never been found. Last week a Santa Monica Superior Court jury agreed with the prosecutors, convicting Hunt of robbery and murder...
...events, with Hardy going first and last; like the famous Japanese short story and film Rashomon, their accounts do not quite measure up with each other. Playwright Brian Friel, who is undergoing an inexplicable vogue among the Harvard thespian set, handles the theme of religion as a divine con game with much less sophistication than Flannery O'Conner did in her novel Wise Blood...
Harvard does not plan to expose its Women's Studies con- centrators--many of whom will already be avowed feminists--to the range of literature--by both men and women--on women. While "Social Studies 10" treats both Adam Smith and Karl Marx, "Women's Studies 10" makes no pretense of an open mind. It advocates one narrow, often insipid. "approach," the feminist "approach." This "approach" wanders all the way from liberal feminism to socialist feminism to radical feminism. Other areas of the discipline--if it is a discipline and if it has other areas--are ignored...
Punctuation, too, becomes a crucial consideration: instead of calling for mommy, the new-age child must learn to cry for his (M)other. And don't forget con-junctions. The intertextual Grammer Rock must now instruct children in the mysterious 'either/or and simultaneously neither/nor.' Never fear that traditional values need fall by the wayside: discipline is still important, as every mother who has ever washed out her child's mouth with soap for saying "dualism" or "positivism" in the house can tell...
...leave Harvard tomorrow with the feeling that outstanding con- tributions made in this university to thedemocratic vision encourage the development of allof our people," the governor concluded...