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Bartlett trip will undoubtedly increase the chances that Congress will appropriate funds for expanding U.S. military facilities on Diego Garcia, the tiny British-owned island that lies some 2,000 miles off the coast of East Africa and 1,000 miles south of India...
...novel, manages to trap the solar energy of his landscape; the shadowy Indian existence is thrown against the brilliant screen of another reality that hovers, shimmers and then vanishes the way it came. Claremon is a bit of a necromancer himself, easily summoning up the spirits of B. Traven, Garcia Lorca and-unhappily -Ernest Hemingway. It is in echoing Papa's Spanish style that the novelist makes his largest error. For to use "for" on almost every page is to bring a monotony to a highly charged work. For an author does not render Mexican into English that...
...last time. But sometimes I think that because they're basically a beer, bar and good-time band, fit for small places and close rapport, they'll stay in that closed circle--in which case Cambridge is still like Berkeley, where you can check into a club and see Garcia and Saunders or Asleep at the Wheel on a Tuesday night with nothing to do. But no matter, Wright and the Boys are the finest country, western swing and country rock band in New England--hands down--and they're easy enough to listen to that weekend people...
Nicaragua is even more extreme than the general case, for here is a dynasty, the Somoza family, has dominated the country for over 40 years and cornered wealth and power to an extent considered extreme even by Latin American standards. The dynasty's founder. Anastasio Somoza Garcia, took power in 1933 with the help of United States Marines and held it until he was assassinated in 1956. Since then, his two sons have taken turns as president and commander of the National Guard. Nicaragua's euphemistically named combination army and secret police force, which the United States aids and helps...
Again, admissions officers hinted that a lack of vigorous recruiting is the primary reason for the drop. Frank L. Garcia '76, a Chicano recruiter for Harvard and Radcliffe, said this week that there were, in fact, fewer recruiters this year than last--and that although the admissions offices spent as much money this year as last on recruiting, the effort has been "toned down...