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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beneath the surface exoticism, Lucas still betrays quite a few rough edges. Would any British memsahib, in 1936, refer to an Indian stranger as "cute" ? Or any native of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., talk of "open((ing)) your schmucky gob"? Does the world really need another lecherous British officer dithering, "I say, Lorna, I'm terribly keen on you"? At times, with their perfumed dissolutes and frustrated shrinks, the stories read like crude distillations of the Anglo-Indo-American vignettes of screenwriter-novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, or even like bite-size appetizers for the full-course feast of a Salman Rushdie novel...
...letter addressed to the Business School community yesterday, Dean John H. McArthur underscored the difficulty of "keep[ing] going almost as though nothing has happened" in the face of war and encouraged members of the Business School community to "set [their] own priorities" with regards to taking time...
...official count of the additional forces has been provided by the pentagon, but military sources speak- ing on condition of anonymity said the totalincluded large numbers of Navy and Marine Corpspersonnel...
That president said that many club officials are considering "almost completely fad[ing] out of the social scene" at Harvard. He said that many of the clubs have discussed adopting a policy similar to one used by the Porcellian Club, which reportedly allows only members inside...
...fact that Renehan was the sole lawyer to argue among the nine plaintiffs, coupled with the proposition that all the cases be transferred to Boston, may indicate that the University is poised to play the lead- ing role in the litigation...