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...recover from reading Tom Wolfe. Not the white-suited dandy who lit a bonfire under the vanities, but the big lug from Asheville, North Carolina, who said you can't go home again. Symptoms of the disease are truly terrible: a bloviation of the prose, with cliches clanging at irregular intervals; a golly-gee nostalgia for the glitz of Manhattan when one was , young, yearning and oh-so-talented; and, for a few, an incurable lust to strew names like sunflower seeds...
...Irregular Serb forces captured and "ethnically cleansed" the center of Brcko of its mainly Muslim population last year. Now they are trying to push south to widen their land link to Serbia. The hamlets stand in the way. Their defenders are local Muslim youths, sons of farmers and shopkeepers, of families who have known one another and worked together all their lives. At first, the fighters were no more than a self-declared militia; today they are a veteran unit of the Bosnian army...
...want to think on anyone else's schedule next year," Allen says. She talks of working at some irregular menial job and seems almost wistful when suggesting she'd like to wait tables...
...University of Minnesota researchers in a report in the journal Nature. After examining whisker patterns on 920 lions, they concluded that males whose black dots in the topmost row of whiskers line up evenly tended to have longer lives than lions whose spots are arranged in a more irregular fashion...
Michelle C. Sullivan '96 says that when she was given a electrocardiogram for a possible irregular heartbeat, she was promised test results the next day. But UHS never called. After two weeks, she went in and got the results herself, but the experience left a lasting impression...