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...wood boat approaching the port capital of St. George's were the most trying. Captain Alfred, who calls himself the "Big Fisherman," had argued against taking his 20-ft. vessel into the harbor directly under the guns of the People's Revolutionary Army's (P.R.A.) Fort Rupert. We had worried more about a shark spotted on the five-hour trip from the out island of Carriacou than any trouble we expected ashore. Two U.S. helicopters had buzzed us as we approached, and we waved back with our cameras and radios. But as we came closer...
...journey, Helprin, 36, strains for comparisons to his 19th century master. The names of characters could have been culled from the pages of The Pickwick Papers: the Rev. Mootfowl, Pearly Soames, Rupert Binky, Daythril Moobcot, Hardesty Marratta, Jesse Honey. The portraits of the huddled poor, the satirically named newspapers (the Evening Ghost, the Morning Whale) all echo Dickens' works. But it is Oliver without a Twist, Chuzzle minus...
However, officials at Brandeis said that they planed to continue their new merit-based aid program, citing excellent yield among the students receiving the larger awards Twenty-three students, who did not qualify for financial aid and were awarded $4000 a piece, will be attending Brandeis next fall, Kirsten Rupert, associate director of financial aid, said yesterday. Eighteen financial and students granted an additional $2500 each will also enroll this fall, she added...
...deflect the discontent, Nannen named two outsiders, Business Journalist Johannes Gross and Television Executive Peter Scholl-Latour, as co-publishers and editors in chief. The magazine's management also returned $200,000 that had been paid by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for British and Commonwealth publication rights. The placatory efforts backfired. In a statement, some 200 editorial employees labeled the episode "a severe blow against 35 years of Stern credibility." About 100 staffers staged a sit-in at Stern's offices to protest the hiring of Gross and Scholl-Latour because their jobs would merge business...
...more." Rupert Murdoch apparently was caught with a twelve-page color excerpt on the diaries already printed for the Star. Seemingly unfazed, Murdoch said, "Well, nothing ventured, nothing gained...