Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ethics, or those featuring women and minorities as subjects, for example, are often in short supply. While in most areas Harvard is "always turning cases out," says Ciulla, ethics cases, as well as those dealing with certain other specialized areas, are few, and professors often write their own in order to make new material available...
...District Judge Robert Patterson on Sunday signed a temporary order blocking sympathy strikes by workers at three railroads in the metropolitan New York area, said a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The order was not made public immediately...
Thus some of Rushdie's detractors can now say that a symmetrical justice has been served: those who court fame end up with infamy. The man who notoriously abandoned the longtime editor who backed him for more than a decade in order to get a contract of roughly $1 million has now got a $1 million contract on his head. And in the same breath as he became a household name, Rushdie has become a missing person. Almost worst of all, for a writer, his work of the imagination -- and an exceptionally complex work of an uncommonly fertile imagination...
...least odd aspect of the affair is that Foucault's Pendulum is not so much a thriller as a complicated parable that contains pages and pages of erudite details about such medieval phenomena as the Knights Templar, the Cathars and the Order of Assassins. And Eco steadfastly refuses to explain what his mysterious novel is all about. "This was a book conceived to irritate the reader," he says in his drafty university office, lighting up another of the 60 cigarettes he puffs every day. "I knew it would provoke ambiguous, nonhomogeneous responses because it was a book conceived to point...
...Rushdie's book as a flaming spear with which to halt his country's creeping trend toward moderation. Within days, the "liberals" who had seemed to be in the ascendant in Tehran dropped from sight. They had been trying to strengthen diplomatic and economic ties with the West in order to rebuild the country following its disastrous eight-year war with Iraq...