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...really feel like the whole point of shopping period is to go around and explore different classes,” said Alicia C. Llosa ’03. “It’s an exploration of courses beyond just your concentration, and I feel that especially with the system of Cores, it’s great to be able to check out lots of different classes within the Core areas...
...Trujillo transposed in Mario Vargas Llosa's novel The Feast of the Goat (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 404 pages; $25) is heartless and uncannily shrewd, a man whose political instincts and outsize lust were the twin pillars of his power. But personality goes only so far in maintaining authority. Vargas Llosa's scenes of official murder and sanctioned torture are fulsome enough to have been written by the other Mario, the late best-selling author Mario Puzo. Like the father of The Godfather, the Peru-born Vargas Llosa has a talent for the graphic. There are no horses' heads...
Earlier Vargas Llosa novels such as The City and the Dogs (survival of the fittest at a Peruvian boys' school, published in 1963) and Conversation in the Cathedral (entrenched corruption in Lima, 1969) foreshadow the harsh realism of this latest book. There are two main story lines. One is the sorrowful history of the Trujillo era, ending with his assassination. The other is the tale of Urania Cabral, a handsome New York City lawyer who returns to the Dominican Republic after a 30-year absence to visit her dying father and exorcise her demons...
...Republic had the best-fed sharks in the Caribbean. "A toad in body and soul," Abbes would be the novel's vilest character were it not for Trujillo's son Ramfis, a playboy known abroad for his affairs with Hollywood stars and at home for raping schoolgirls. Vargas Llosa plants Trujillo securely in his time and place, but the book's dictator also crosses temporal and physical boundaries to remind us that tyranny remains the source of Latin America's best fiction. Like Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The Autumn of the Patriarch, The Feast of the Goat confirms Balzac...
...Harvard Independent announced its 2001-2002 Executive Board yesterday, naming Andrew E. Carlson ’03 as president, Matthew G. Yglesias ’03 as editor-in-chief, Garrett J. Grolemund ’03 as publisher, Alicia C. Llosa ’03 and David Montes ’03 as executive editors. Olivia Y. Hung ’03 will assume the position of senior manager and Cody R. Corliss ’03 will be the director of development...