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Cook’s books are fashioned to reflect the medical issues of the times. He sees himself as a teacher whose vehicle is the mass-market paperback and he shares his opinion throughout the 370-page novel. The plot revolves around two Harvard graduate students (one getting a Masters degree in economics, the other in Biology) who respond to a Crimson ad seeking young, attractive Ivy League egg donors...
...major tenants of Watertown’s Arsenal Complex, a 30-acre plot which Harvard purchased for $163 million last year, are in conflict with the University over their leases...
When Harvard bought the Watertown plot last spring, the goal was to use the property to aid the space needs of the University, according to Spiegelman...
...Genzyme plant already sits on Harvard’s land. Almost a decade ago, the company was attracted to the plot by the Boston Redevelopment Authority who envisioned a science park opposite the Business School’s Western Ave. frontage...
...novel's catchy title, aptly describing the burden of the plot, derives from a volume of Balzac containing Ursule Mirouët wheedled out of the hidden cache of a fellow re-educatee in a nearby village. The book becomes as cherished as any work of Dickens in Waugh's A Handful of Dust. For when Luo reads and then retells the story to a dazzling but illiterate Chinese seamstress, she falls in idyllic love with both him and Balzac. Youthful passions reign, and the lovers and the narrator find themselves beset with the ultimate woe of literary teenage coupling...