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...Huskies came roaring into town, ready to feast on the crimson and white...
...other if they could talk? One New York vulture would say to the other, "Hey buddy, go find your own food," and then attack the reporter who came to cover the fight. A rough game, perhaps, but it's likely that at least five would cross the Hudson and feast on the products of some factory in suburban New Jersey and that the story in the next day's Times would contain a few colorful quotes...
...Byatt's recent book, Angels and Insects, is a somewhat uneven pairing of two novellas. The first, "Morpho Eugenia," is a feast for naturalists. This story's butterflies and ants provide the insects of the book's title, while "The Conjugial Angel," the second and weaker novella, is organized around seances, and of course provides the title's angels. Both stories are set against the backdrop of Victorian England's exploration of the natural and supernatural world; shipwreck and return play important roles in both stories; and both shift between two lines of narration: in "Morpho Eugenia" it is between...
Alleging a "banquet feast of corruption" in the national political scene, former California governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. attacked media, government and big business during a discussion at the Kennedy School of Government yesterday...
...many Japanese acknowledge their penchant for the ambiguous, the White House rushed to forestall any damage to the U.S.-Japan relationship. Clinton, said spokesman George Stephanopoulos, was only making "a casual comment about Japanese courtesy and etiquette." Even so, the Clinton-Miyazawa talks are unlikely to be a love feast. Coming to power after the end of the cold war, the Clinton Administration sees Japan not as an ally that must be indulged -- the Reagan-Bush view -- but as a nagging problem. Its formative years were the 1980s, when supercharged Japanese industry and money seemed able to score at will...