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...unrequited love with Mr. Ferrars (Hugh Grant, marvelously blending probity and arrested development), who has foolishly promised himself to another. But of this misery she dare not speak, for other circumstances require that she be a brick: the death of her father and the loss of Norland, the stately digs where she and her all female family have been safe and content; the genteel but palpable anxiety of her mother (Gemma Jones), trying to be brave as poverty and spinsterhood loom for her girls; the hysterically misplaced passion of her sister Marianne (Kate Winslet)--the "Sensibility" of the title--nearly...
...younger and given the best an off-Broadway showcase. This year's cleverest premise comes from Aurorae Khoo. Her rap poem The P.C. (for politically correct) Laundromat substitutes for the melting pot the metaphor of the washing machine, where whites and colors fare best when separate. Joanna Norland's Mothers Have Nine Lives wryly contrasts the joys of playing mommy as a child with the discontents of the real thing. The deftest storyteller is Robert Levy, whose Mrs. Neuberger's Dead sends up young people finding themselves...
Participants in the panel were: Michael McEthe, a Harvard gradate student who led a Black trade union in South Africa; Daniel A. Swanson '74, a reporter who traveled in South Africa while writing under the pseudonym James North; Donald Norland, former U.S. Ambassador to four African nations; and Kenneth Carstens, a South African academic who now heads a fund to provide legal aid to political prisoners in South Africa...
...student set up extra-curricular student study groups taught by the Fellows and other prominent experts, this semester including Ambassador Donald R. Norland's "The United States and Sub-Sahara Africa" and Boston Globe editorial cartoonist Paul Szep's "Satire...
...Stanley. But for that, the current British forces of some 4,000 marines and paratroopers (1,500 with the task force, 2,500 aboard the converted ocean liner Canberra) is inadequate. Recognizing the manpower problem, the British last week sent 1,200 more troops toward the Falklands aboard the Norland ferry. Additional British units are receiving emergency training for Falklands duty in the mountainous reaches of northern Scotland...