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...awful fear is that if it (a reconciliation) did happen, how long would she be able to stay on the straight and narrow?" Maj. Ronald Ferguson, father of Sarah "Fergie" Ferguson, the Duchess of York, in his new book. The Galloping Major. He was referring to the prospects of his daughter's reuniting with her estranged husband, Prince Andrew...
...mystery-by-installment plan can, however, record almost journalistically a sequence of social change. Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo reflected, in their Martin Beck series, the decay of the socialist dream in Sweden; Joseph Hansen provided a time line on gay life in the U.S. in his Dave Brandstetter series. No current mystery writer has better exploited this potential -- or better served readers with riveting storytelling and acutely observed human nature -- than James McClure in his eight novels about two South African policemen. The cheerily crass Boer, Tromp Kramer, and his wily "kaffir" partner, Mickey Zondi, were introduced...
...Maj. Gen. Yuri Nauman, a representative of the Soviet Defense Ministry, told a news conference today in Vilnius that soldiers would not try to seize the Lithuanian parliament building, headquarters of the government that declared independence in March...
...Maj. Douglas W. Hart, a Pentagon public affairs officer, after the MIT faculty passed its own resolution two days later condemning the exclusion of gays and lesbians from military service...
Dwindling defense spending, however, has forced the Army to cut back on its ROTC awards, according to Maj. Ralph J. Gabriel, assistant professor of military science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Two years ago, the Army began offering only 80 percent tuition funding to students at institutions such as Harvard that do not host the ROTC program on campus...