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...course of a few days on the job as an investigative reporter for a Los Angeles daily, Irwin Fletcher (Chevy Chase) presents himself to various sources as G. Gordon Liddy, Harry S. Truman, Igor Stravinsky, Don Corleone and Arnold Babar (as in the elephant). He also makes up a few monikers: Mr. Poon from the SEC, for example, and John Coctosea ("it's Scotch-Rumanian"). Sometimes he does not bother with name-dropping; he just gets a false beard or teeth from the novelty store and skips blithely into and out of trouble...
...Fred Fletcher '88 ran a paper through his new spelling program one day, and lost the whole paper. Thorpe's roommate finished writing a paper one day, got up, stretched and kicked the power out, turning the computer off and losing his paper And the stories of 20-page papers lost though pushing one wrong button...
...Fletcher studied regions of Islamic Central Asia, Mongolia, China and Russia. At his death, he was focusing on Islamic revivalism, recent fanatical religious movements, and the uprisings it produced in Asia...
...Fletcher, who was considered very popular among students. He taught the popular course Historical Studies B-15, "Empire of the Mongols," and received the J.R. Levinson Teaching Award from undergraduates...
...Joseph F. Fletcher Jr. Fund for Inner Asian Studies, established by his friends and colleagues after his death, sponsored the symposium...