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University attorney Allen A. Ryan Jr., whohandles copyright law matters for Harvard, saidthe laws do not permit "materials to be reproducedfor classroom use without the permission of thecopyright holder...
...August, President Clinton called for a review of these lax federal procedures, which currently provide a one-year dealer's license for a $10 fee -- going to $200 under the Brady Bill -- to anyone over 21 who has a fixed address and no criminal record. That entitles the holder to order an unlimited number of guns from wholesalers. Today there are more than 287,000 federally licensed dealers in the U.S., nearly three-fourths of them "kitchen-table operators" who work from home. Though gun dealers are responsible for keeping sales records and running checks on potential buyers, small-timers...
Mukherjee's true achievement in The Holder of the World, setting it apart from previous works, is her use of the character of Hannah Easton as a vehicle by which moments of public rather than private history are explored. So when Hannah is whisked away to England by a one-eyed adventurer--a man who quickly turns into an absentee husband--Mukherjee seizes an opportunity to illuminate the nebulous relationship between New England and Old England...
...Holder of the World is rife with literary allusions and parentage, a new approach to literary technique for Mukherjee, whose earlier works have not been self-referential as literary texts. The described narrative structure is nearly identical to that of Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; in this novel, an Englishwoman goes to India to uncover the past of her step-grandmother (same obscure relationship), a woman who left her British Civil Servant husband for an Indian nawab. Mukherjee blatantly refers to The Great game of Kipling's Kim. Hannah's cosmic relationship with history seems suspiciously similar...
...Holder of the World deserves to be read not just as the inverted formula of Mukherjee's previous works--the white woman traveling East instead of the Indian woman traveling West--because the novel attempts to do much more, and succeeds...