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...seven-member board hopes to turn the residence into an international center that would make Boston a locus for Philippine studies...
Until a few weeks ago, the Fao Peninsula in southeastern Iraq was a sparsely inhabited outpost of little interest to anyone. By last week it had become the locus of some of the fiercest fighting in the Iran-Iraq war, as Iraqi troops mounted a blistering counterattack against dug-in Iranian invaders. By week's end Iran still held its grip on the peninsula. And neighboring Arab sheikdoms began to wonder whether Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had lost the initiative on the battlefield to the Iranian juggernaut...
This mammoth chronicle is Michener's longest yet, and like so many of those before it, contains perfunctory characterization, arid prose and an authentic gift for conveying the mighty sweep of history. This time the locus is the Lone Star State. Michener begins his tale in the early 16th century, when Tejas was unexplored Mexican wasteland. In the kilopage fictification that follows, events and personalities pass in review: the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, Comanche raids, cattle drives, oil, religion, high school football, superpatriotism and real estate dodges. Much of this is fascinating, but it is propelled...
...feminist politics requires a delicate balance between playing into oppositional logic and sidestepping difficult political issues. If "the privileged locus of drama" is, in fact, the female subject, it is time feminism's serious play turned its attention to a female as well as male audience...
...Harvard men's hockey goalie GRANT BLAIR (seen in earlier action) couldn't stop the Elis time around as yale rolled to a 6-2 victory over the Crimson in New Haven last night. The locus brought the icemen's record...