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Mitigating Circumstances (Dutton; $20), by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg, needs some mitigating by an editor. Or maybe not; the prose is so purple it's golden. An aerobic love passage ends with the heroine, an assistant prosecutor named Lily Forrester, hyperventilating as follows: "Her body was screaming at her, begging her, demanding more. Perhaps she could actually feed this desire, this need." A lawyer's body wouldn't really carry on this way, would...
Cohn is the ideal villain. He stole from clients. He corrupted the political system. He illegally lobbied a judge to secure the execution of Ethel Rosenberg (who haunts Cohn in his dying days, then says the Kaddish over his corpse, ending with a blasphemous but heartfelt "son of a bitch"). But for Kushner's polemical purposes, Cohn's greatest evil was his willingness to tolerate, in fact promote, discrimination against gays even as he secretly enjoyed boundless gay sex. He is embodied with robust humor and seductive malevolence by Kushner and actor Ron Leibman, who make Cohn a villain...
...think philosophically the system is good,"said Jonathan Rosenberg, who leads a section forHistorical Studies B-66, "History of the NuclearRevolution...
...Rosenberg said dissatisfaction with sectionsmight be more prevalent among upperclass studentsbecause "as people get farther along in anyinstitution, perhaps they get jaded to the thingsthey are exposed...
Currently, Cambridge citizens make up 7.7 percent of the city's biotech work force, said Assistant City Manager Michael Rosenberg...