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...loss, while it did not knock Harvard completely out of the Ivy League race, nonetheless dealt a serious blow to the squad's Ancient Eight (or in this case, Ancient Six) aspirations...
Slive released a statement at the time, saying, "The Fogg has been dealt a blow from which the museum and the university it exists to serve may never recover...
...prevent the hijacking from torpedoing the Middle East peace process. Ever since Jordan's King Hussein and P.L.O. Leader Arafat agreed last February to work together to get Middle East peace talks moving again, Mubarak has hoped to bring Israel and Jordan to the negotiating table. That hope was dealt a rude blow two weeks ago, when Israel launched a 1,500-mile bombing raid on Arafat's P.L.O. headquarters near Tunis...
Nissenson, whose previous fiction (My Own Ground, A Pile of Stones) dealt almost exclusively with Jewish subjects, extends his range with this novel. He never steps out of character to make any of its burdens explicit. Keene does not know the meaning or historical import of the events he jots down in what he calls his "Waste Book." No longer able to believe in heavenly salvation, he does think of his journal as "my hope of Immortality." It will take a few decades to reach a firm verdict, but a first reading of The Tree of Life strongly suggests that...
Slive released a statement at the time, saying, "The Fogg has been dealt a blow from which the museum and the university it exists to serve may never recover...