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...LUCK CLUB by Amy Tan (Putnam; $18.95). A bright, sharp-flavored first novel on growing up ethnic in the U.S. The topic sounds familiar, but the Chinese spice added to this old recipe is invigorating and refreshingly true...
...Putnam; 288 pages...
Three Harvard students also placed in the top five individually as part of the 49th annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, a standardized six-hour, six-question exam...
...competition was begun in 1938 "to encourage the idea of competition in academic subjects in colleges," according to Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy Andrew M. Gleason, a former team coordinator. The contest is named for William Lowell Putnam (1882), whose trust fund sponsors the event...
...Putnam seems to have all the requisite ingredients for the deanship. If his qualifications translate into action, as it seems they will, the Kennedy School should prosper under his leadership well into the next decade...