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...resolution was adopted unanimously by the council in its first regular meeting of the year. It contained three proposals to restrict drinking to students 21 or older and three proposals to help enliven drier house parties...
...know, and a large institution should follow the rules," said Allie Drier '88. "It's hard for a college to sanction thousands of underage drinkers...
...Ararat is a combination of prose and poetry, original material and translation, exploring the connections between consciousness and holocaust, sex and death. But whereas The White Hotel connected these themes with a pulse all its own, Ararat, like the Armenian landscape from which it is drawn, is a much drier work. The tremendous stream of poetry in The White Hotel, the sexually surreal "Don Giovanni" portion as well as the deafening violence of the Babi Yar testimony, collaborated to overwhelm the reader. This sensory overload created a flow or wave of feeling, which after it had receded, left the reader...
...Portillo was both a teacher and a novelist; De la Madrid's writings are infinitely drier and more technical. Sample titles: Studies on Constitutional Law; Today's Great National Problems, The Challenge of the Future. Nonetheless, those who know the new President well say that he is also suave, self-assured and possesses a warm sense of humor. Says a Mexican banker: "He is soft in form but hard in substance. I've never heard him raise his voice, but he can be very tough." Says one of De la Madrid's advisers...
...matter how long he survives, life will not be easy for Barney Clark. He is permanently tethered to 375 Ibs. of equipment that includes two compressors, a back-up compressor, a three-hour supply of pressurized air to operate the heart in case of a power failure, a drier to dehumidify the air, and mechanisms that control the air pressure and heart rate. All of this gear can be placed on what his doctors call a "shopping cart," which must always be within six feet of the patient, the length of the power lines that emerge from just below Clark...