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...Kelley, America's premier slash biographer. The resulting furor caused even some die- hard Nancy haters to feel a sympathetic twinge or two for the former First Lady. Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography (Simon & Schuster) went on sale across the nation just as newspapers and TV newscasts began to revel in the book's most sensational allegations. Many bookstores sold out their copies within hours. Aggrieved parties cried foul, Johnny Carson made jokes and guardians of journalistic integrity shook their heads. The New York Times, which trumpeted the book's revelations in a long, uncritical front-page piece on Sunday...
...Arangio and his friends revel in Bow and Arrow folklore. He says that every Friday night, a man, with a pipe in one hand and a drink in the other, comes in to play checkers. "He puts the drink down just long enough to move," says Arangio, who comes from the Orient Heights section of East Boston...
...People like to say they're part of the financecommittee, a lot of people do revel in it," hesays
...chronicles the Japanese sojourn of Anne (Cara Polites), a Harvard student who works as a hostess in the semi-reputable bar owned by Ono (Michelle Banyas). Rich Tokyo businessmen escape the tedium of their domestic lives at Club Venus; for a fee they can drink, tell bad jokes, and revel in the company of beautiful women...
Whether or not legacy admissions is a minority issue, The Crimson makes the unfounded claim that minority students sit smug and self-assured with the knowledge that their children will some day be favored. Minority students do not revel in their future progenies' expected privileges, as Joshua Li's out-of-context quotation seems to imply. There is a vast difference between joyously embracing the legacy policy and making the observation that the legacy policy will play a part in our future...