Word: masterfulness
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...Operation Shylock by Philip Roth. The uncontested master of comic irony comes up with another ticklish situation: a writer named Philip Roth journeys to Israel to confront a Philip Roth imposter who is trying to persuade Jews to go back to Europe and re-establish Yiddish culture. This new Diaspora aims to avert an Arab-engineered Holocaust by returning Israelis to the countries of their ancestors. Seriously funny about Middle East madness, Roth riffs with an abandon not seen since Portnoy's Complaint...
...Gurion and Golda Meir -- Arafat stands alone as a folk hero to his people. The teetotaling vegetarian is conniving, disarming, engaging, and quick with such perfect sound bites as the fact that his favorite cartoon is Tom and Jerry, since the mouse so often wins. He is a master of symbolism: never much of a soldier, he chose a fighting man's khakis and holster for his daily costume. His checkered kaffiyeh provides instant recognizability in a crowd -- a risk, perhaps, to one who lives in the cross hairs, but a shrewd asset when it comes to maintaining his mythic
...devised. Contractors discovered the decay of the duct during summer renovations aimed at making Quincy the second handicapped-accessible house on campus, with Currier being the first. The vent is “broken, full of flammable grease, and just plain dangerous,” Quincy House Master Robert P. Kirshner ’71 wrote in an e-mail to the Quincy House open list on Sunday. “I don’t think anyone had taken a look at it since 1961 when Quincy was first built,” wrote Kirshner, who was a resident...
...Christian medical-assistance group called MAP International, Okaalet has spent the past 12 years working with ministers--and by extension their congregations--to refine and in some cases redefine their response to AIDS. To that end he has run countless seminars in Kenya and elsewhere and helped establish master's degree programs in pastoral care and HIV/AIDS at 14 seminaries and Bible colleges in eastern and southern Africa...
...campus parties with more than 20 attendees will be banned on the Friday night before the Harvard-Yale Game, according to a new rule instituted by Yale’s Council of Masters. The new policy aims to prevent property damage and disorderly behavior, hallmarks of past pre-Game parties, said Branford College Master Steven B. Smith. The newly-implemented limit on party size comes on the heels of several other restrictions on game-related festivities this year. Last Monday, Yale announced that all tailgates will have to end before the start of the third quarter and that all drinking...