Word: sonly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most illuminating and eloquent is Tobias Wolff's explication of his short story "Powder"--which centers on a father and son's attempts at making their way home for Christmas Eve in the midst of a snowstorm. The urgency of memory, the need to mediate all the past's heart-break and humor, infuses Wolff's story with dead-pan beauty. Reminiscent of Raymond Carver's classic "Popular Mechanics" (minus the bloody conclusion) in terms of its powerful brevity, "Powder" is the best work included in the anthology...
Members of the ad hoc Grape Coalition, which wants to remove the boycott, meet in advance of the upcoming referendum. More than 20 students attend the planning session, led by Adam R. Kovacevich '99, chair of the Coalition and son of a California grape grower...
Miller is survived by her husband, a son, two daughters, four sisters and six grandchildren
...campaign in favor of cremations so that burials of the dead will not use up more of China's arable land. Clearly, Ding's dilemma calls for a meeting of local party officials, some of whom are his enemies. Follow your conscience, they advise the bereaved and now relieved son, who has already arranged for his mother's coffin. A trap, says his friend: "If you bury your mother tomorrow morning, I'm sure they will report you to the higher-ups tomorrow afternoon." What is Ding...
...everything to do with the fundamental weaknesses of the program. Clementine II is a thinly disguised version of the discredited "Brilliant Pebbles" missile-defense program of the 1980s, which posed major technical and treaty-compliance problems. The Air Force in 1997 did not want in its budget this Son of Brilliant Pebbles, masquerading as an asteroid-research program. Vetoing Clementine II was the right and responsible thing to do. NASA is already tackling this issue with a planned asteroid mission in 1999. JOHN H. GIBBONS Assistant to the President for Science and Technology Washington...