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...Trinity College with a name that could have appeared in Finnegans Wake, calls his work "bloody rubbish. It's just dressing the whole thing up. I tried reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man but couldn't make head or tail of it." A denizen of one of Dublin's ubiquitous pubs shrugs at the mention of Joyce's name: "Jaysus, I can't even back a horse, never mind read his books...
...that analysis of Gaddafi is sound, the desert denizen who sees himself as the slighted messiah of a scorned nation may have launched a frightful new era in modern-day terrorism. To be sure, the 20th century does not lack for examples of political murder. But the threat of assassination of a head of government may now have been elevated by Gaddafi, in an era of worldwide terrorism, to a conscious act of statecraft by a sovereign nation. "For years after World War II, heads of state were considered off-limits to assassination teams," observes Paul Wilkinson, professor of international...
...mill night before Thanksgiving, the cold has done little to ameliorate the midnight-to-two rush. The flow of down jackets and Harvard scarves is steady, interrupted by the occasional serious shopper who asks where the bread is. A neighborhood denizen is brusque, insensitive to ambiance: "I only come here because it's open later than the bars." Shoppers look only mildly embarrassed when someone they know meets them buying bagsful of Brach's Circus Peanuts. But one student is muttering. "God I hate this place, I really hate...
...this activity found Gately in good shape when she returned to Harvard for the six-hour, triple workout that started preparation for the season opener against Bowdoin. This fall the psych major and Winthrop House denizen will have her hands full balancing daily two-and-a-half hour workouts with her aspirations to one day attend law or business school...
...author had a sentimental fascination for the raffish life of New York and Paris. His best-known character is Colonel John R. Stingo, a bombastic Tunes Square denizen. But Liebling is best remembered by other journalists for his enviable style. In 1972 More, The New York Journalism Review congratulated itself on its first birthday by holding the "A.J. Liebling Counter-Convention," a salute to the godfather of New Journalism...