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...club's other founders, Nicole Jampol '94 and Sarah de Munro '90-'91, outlined their plans for club activities. These include viewing Italian films, going to Boston's North End for dinner, watching Italian soccer games and setting up language tables...
...Munro said the group plans to establish service projects where students would tutor Italian-American children and talk with elderly Italian immigrants in the North End and in Newton...
Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro. This collection of 10 shimmering stories should put to rest, at least for a while, the old canard that nothing interesting ever happens in Canada. The author, who lives near Lake Huron, writes about the lives, times and loves of her countrymen and -women with grace, precision and memorable generosity...
...Alice Munro may be the one contemporary writer whose work bears comparison with Chekhov's, and she knows it. In Friend of My Youth (Knopf; 273 pages; $18.95), the Canadian author tells a story of burial at sea. She titles it Goodness and Mercy. Chekhov wrote on the same subject and called his tale Gusev. Is Munro's work a challenge or an homage? No matter; both stories are masterpieces of subtlety and cunning. Other tales investigate the vagaries of love, married and adulterous, and the mystery that separates the sexes. One woman's musings encapsulate the story collection...
...Rome: Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: John Borrell Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Sandra Burton, Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Bangkok: Ross H. Munro Seoul: David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Central America: John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez...