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...love with three Americans, and in and out of crushes on the natives. Merrill explicates these loves and jealousies in sometimes interesting detail: when two objects of his admiration showed up together at an opera, he writes, "pangs reserved exclusively for the gay shot through me--I was jealous of both parties at once." "My good fortune," Merrill also writes," was to stay in one place while the closet simply disintegrated." For many, the most interesting aspect A Different Person will be its recording of a rich, moderately open gay microworld from the early 1950s...

Author: By Stephen L. Burt, | Title: The Prosaic Reveries of James Merrill | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

...organize the voting in December. But it is likely that many of the provincial towns and districts across Russia's 11 time zones will not rally to the task. They have a variety of reasons for not wanting to legitimize a strong central government: many of them are jealous of their natural resources, like oil, gold and diamonds, and want to maintain control of them and share in the profits from sales. And these localities fret that they pay ever higher taxes to Moscow and receive fewer services in return. Some provincial Russians are simply anti-Moscow or anti-Yeltsin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Best Chance for Yeltsin | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

...Well, it's bound to happen every now and then. I suppose we'll just suck it up. Until then, fall compers, enjoy your cocktail parties. I'm a little jealous. At the Crimson, all we ever got were pretzels and warm beer...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: The Season of Comptober | 10/8/1993 | See Source »

...vehicle for you to get revenge for various college slights. Vendettas certainly are fun, but you need to exercise some restraint. After all, you are the one who is going to be a big star, and all of your former classmates at Harvard are going to be jealous of you, so there is no need for you to air so much dirty laundry...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Katie Roiphe and Her Neverending Polemic | 10/7/1993 | See Source »

...dead man's family believes he was murdered on Sheik Omar's orders. Some say Rahman accused him of working for the CIA and stealing money intended for the rebels. "I think the sheik was simply jealous because Shalabi was becoming too powerful," says a police investigator. Despite his long friendship with Shalabi, Abouhalima emerged as a prime murder suspect, but he was never charged, and the case remains unsolved. Seven days after Shalabi's murder, the FBI received a tip that Abouhalima was harboring explosives. Dressed as utility workers, federal agents searched his Brooklyn apartment but came up empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Life of Mahmud the Red | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

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