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Professors echo graduate students' complaints, saying that shopping period wastes a week of class time and often forces them to hire unqualified Teaching Fellows (TFs) when enrollment exceeds expectations...
...MaryAnn Cunanan now gets food stamps. Before she stopped talking to the media, she told the Minneapolis Star Tribune, "No matter what he's done, he's my flesh and blood. I can't believe he could be a cold-blooded killer." She added a sentiment many would surely echo, about their own flesh and blood: "I hope he's not the next...
...Just's beguiling personalities has always been the nation's capital. The mystique lives on in Echo House (Houghton Mifflin; 328 pages; $25), a novel that spans nearly the entire 20th century and sees the Federal District emerge from drowsy Southern town into frenetic center of world power...
Ironically, what sets Echo House apart from the hyperrealities of the usual Washington novel is precisely its air of ineffability. Beneath his bulletproof exterior Axel has a vulnerable emotional life. Why exactly does he carry a 50-year torch for a member of the French Resistance who gave him only unfriendly glances during the war? Were her youthful beauty and clarity of purpose an unshakable reminder of his own murky career as a political mechanic...
...history needs comic relief. Just obliges with Mrs. Pfister, fortune-teller to the Washington elite, whose sessions are bugged by government agents, and the "Venerables," a pair of aged columnists who "had been out of step with every administration since Eisenhower's." These geezers and other faded Washingtonians in Echo House are more than welcomed. Just is a sharp-eyed observer and acerbic commentator, but he is also a bighearted host to all the has-beens and will-bes gathered in this roomy and inviting novel...