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This is actually true. Browsing through the alphabetized entries in this novel is not only possible but pleasurable. Under "Brankovich, Avram," for example, a figure of speech is given new life: "The daughter had taken all her best features from her mother, who after birth remained forever ugly." The definition...
IT is a tense night in the Bush camp as George and some key advisers wait for the call that could alter the course of their campaign. Fundamentalists, the defense lobby, the National Rifle Association, the National Association of Pledgers of Allegiance--the seals of approval of all these groups...
He avoided the lure of politics until 1980, when, with the P.R.I.'s backing, he was elected governor of his home state of Michoacan. By the end of his term in 1986, Cardenas was voicing doubts about the P.R.I.'s commitment to Mexico's poor. He was quickly informed by...
But aside from these minor social problems, Anderson says that the Harvard experience, for her, has been excellent. "I think it's a great opportunity for a Black person here. Myself especially, being the child of immigrants, working our way up to where we are now, being able to have...
Some shell. Today Stanford is home to 1,200 faculty members and 13,300 students. Its faculty and staff include nine Nobel laureates, eleven National Medal of Science recipients, eight MacArthur Foundation Fellows and six Pulitzer prizewinners. Stanford students have won 59 Rhodes Scholarships and 27 Marshall Scholarships. Among the...