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...become one of the most effective shepherds in the history of the cantankerous club that he leads. With an amiable aw-shucks manner, he wanders the corridors keeping his troops in line and his opponents placated. "The cloakroom becomes my office," he says. "The floor is my domain...
...scholarly event among all the public lectures and films and special exhibits, an academic symposium on the Danzig experience moderated by Professor Isadore Twersky. But the symposium could have taken place without the museum and even without the exhibit. Holocaust studies, strictly speaking, are not in the domain of the Harvard Near Eastern department; nor does 19th-or 20th-century Judaica make up any significant portion of the Semitic Museum's collection...
...University filed suit against Cambridge in Middlesex District Court last week to obtain higher payment for a plot of land which the city took by eminent domain...
Tommy's domain at Winter Haven is the kitchen in the clubhouse, just off the pressroom. His title is press steward. He recalls in loving detail when the Red Sox train, with reporters and maybe 40 Old Boys aboard, would leave Boston's Back Bay Station in the years after World War II. Tommy was not allowed to serve drinks in the station. But once the train started rolling, at 8 a.m. sharp, Tommy started pouring. It was a happy crowd that stepped off into the Florida sunshine at 3 o'clock the following afternoon. Spring training...
...eccentric gourmet, General Idi Amin Dada made a lot of people blanch in his eight years as Uganda's dictator. With Amin now in asylum in Saudi Arabia, Director Sharad Patel has felt free to turn this biopic into a minstrel show of atrocity. Amin struts across his domain like Kong with a salad of Day-Glo medals pinned to his chest. Amin expels Asian workers from Uganda and distributes the spoils to his private army of hitmen. Amin services an interracial harem. Amin juggles the lives of Arab radicals and Jewish captives at Entebbe airport. Amin eats...