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...communist government, the resulting U.S. invasion and the rise of English as the official language. Now he prowls the carless, bicycle-clogged streets of Madrid, tracking runaway kids and errant spouses for $100 a day plus expenses. He keeps a bottle of whiskey in his filing cabinet under the letter I, for Indispensable. Into his crummy office one day walks ? ah, but we're getting ahead of the story. Clot is the hard-boiled, hard-drinking hero of Blood on the Saddle, the first novel by Rafael Reig to be translated into English (smoothly, by Paul Hammond). A finalist...
...letter from Santa complaining about his reindeer's death and looked into it seriously." MORTEN JENSEN, spokesman for the Danish air force, which paid a part-time Santa Claus about $5,000 after flight data and veterinarian reports backed up his claim that F-16 jets screaming over his farm had frightened his animal, Rudolf, to death...
...letter on display, from the President of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, informs Othello’s artistic company that the audience of the play would have to be segregated according to Texas’s Jim Crow laws. The production’s artistic company refused to perform before segregated audiences, and so Othello did not tour Baylor University, or, in fact, any Southern city. Even in Northern cities, segregation was such a fact of life that Robeson, although a national star, had trouble finding hotel accommodations in some cities...
...terms of football, joining the national-letter-of-intent-day, changing the recruiting policy from 30 per year to 120 per four years—in order to allow coaches to stock up in strong years and pass on weak classes, rather than having to take equal numbers from both—and allowing member schools to play an eleventhp game, have more spring practices and compete for a national title, would all be cheaper solutions that could progress toward the same goal...
...smaller group of about 20 security guards employed by the Harvard contractor Allied Security then marched to the Allied Security office in Wigglesworth Hall to deliver a letter of complaint...