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Last year's residents expressed their feelings of isolation with T-shirts acidly inviting their classmates to "Visit the Exotic Far East: See the Union Dorms." Of course, visitors were rare, and the students usually wound up journeying westward, desperately prowling the Yard or living the good life at Father...
After recuperating from this incident, Odell escaped the dangers of intelligence work and enrolled in Harvard. Don K. Price, dean of the Kennedy School of Government, knew Odell as a student and still regards him as a friend and one-time fishing partner. He recalls that Odell "had a very...
THIS KIND OF Lotus-eaters imagery deludes many Westerners into viewing the East as lush, exotic, and unique. On the ferry from Algeciras to Tangier it's easy to become engrossed admiring the approaching scenery and to ignore one's fellow passengers--dispirited, unromantic, impoverished North African laborers. It's...
Aspirin or Ice Bag. With Swiftian hyperbole, Berman modestly proposes that "over 80% of the patients chancing the physician's skills have little more wrong with them than what a considerate spouse, a kindly bartender or a hefty raise in salary couldn't cure." For most of the...
The purchase of the tract safeguards a wide variety of exotic flora and fauna. Within its boundaries are cypresses so large that eight men can barely join hands around their trunks, huge stands of water tupelo and witch hazel and thick forests of hickory, iron wood and beech. Fish such...