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...Holder of the World...
Touted as the extraordinary tale of a Puritan American woman who, after following her husband to India, falls in love with a Hindu raja, The Holder of the World surely will be remembered as Bharati Mukherjee's finest rendering of a woman's story yet. There is no question that Mukherjee's creative use of a historical tableau--Puritan New England, Mother England, Mughal India--in her new novel demands a more intense reading than was needed for her previous stories of Indian women and their immigrant experiences in a contemporary North American context, but Mukherjee is doing much more...
Newly elected mayors from across the country arrived in Cambridge yesterday for a four-day conference designed to help them make the switch from candidate to office-holder...
Pitted against these bipolar forces is one of the country's most experienced politicians -- the holder of nine Cabinet posts in previous Liberal governments -- and a vocal federalist. Chretien, 59, takes office with a clear, if daunting, mandate: to turn around the limp economy while preserving an expensive social-service network that 28.5 million Canadians -- and Chretien himself -- see as an inalienable right...
MacFarlane had three goals, including two in the first 3:19 of the game, in a 5-1 win against Yale. She recorded the 10th hat trick in Princeton field hockey history and her 20 points make her the school's single-season record-holder. For the season, MacFarlane leads the lvies in both overall and league scoring with 20 (9-2-20) and 9 (4-1-9) points, respectively. HONOR ROLL...