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...tradition of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Geoffrey Wolff spears both social exculsivity and Princetonian pretension with his witty new novel, The Final Club. Wolff charts the voyage of Nathaniel Clay--a Seattle boy who is half-Jew, half WASP--from the deceptively placid waters of the 1950s, through the stormy seas of the 1960s, and finally to a shipwreck at the end of the 1970s...
...Nathaniel Clay, Wolff's hero, attended Princeton in the late '50s -- as did Wolff -- and was snubbed by adolescent aristocrats there, who failed to invite him, in the excruciating selection process oddly called "Bicker," to join one of the university's exclusive and very social eating clubs. Clay's offense seemed to be not so much that he came from a prosperous, partly Jewish Seattle family, but that he was unrepentant about this shortcoming. He acted uppity, as if he had nothing to be ashamed of. Thus it was necessary that he be humbled, and the cruelty with which this...
...sham. U.S. embassy staff and dependents who had traveled to Baghdad from Kuwait City late in the week, apparently with the assurance that they would be permitted to continue to safety in Jordan, were detained. They had made the trip after Washington decided to evacuate everyone but the ambassador, Nathaniel Howell, and a skeleton staff. That decision followed the refusal of the U.S. -- and most other countries with diplomatic business in Kuwait -- to obey Iraq's order that all embassies be closed, in keeping with Saddam's contention that Kuwait is now part of Iraq. On Saturday Howell...
...environment. Above all, undergraduates suffer because of the lack of cooperation among departments with overlapping studies. I hope that Davis and Patterson will remember that, as heads of an academic department, their commitment is supposed to be to the students, not to a self-aggrandizing desire for a following. Nathaniel B. Michelson...
...mixed emotions about the feminist movement. "If asked the question, 'Are you a feminist?' I would have said, 'Yes, but . . . ' " The uncertainty reflected Wallis' experience balancing the demands of a career and a growing family (she and her husband Hugh Osborn, a media consultant, have two children, Nathaniel, 3, and Madeleine, 11 months). "I wondered whether the movement did us a disservice by not preparing us for how difficult it would be," she says. "I'm part of a generation of women who grew up with the opportunities created by the feminist movement, but who find it difficult to cope...