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...expecting to be more excited, but I didn't know the guys, so it was disappointing," said Naomi E. Straus...
Lois-Ann Yamanaka has set all four of her novels in Hawaii, yet none are likely to be promoted by the local tourist bureau. In her latest work particularly, the haunting yet hopeful Father of the Four Passages (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 233 pages; $23), the author seems impervious to her state's natural splendor, focusing instead on the blighted emotional landscape of her characters. Chief among them is Sonia Kurisu, the youngest daughter of a Japanese-American family living in Hilo. After a fraught childhood, Sonia stumbles through addictions to drugs and the men who provide them and undergoes...
...first commercial, we were all fed up with the fuzzy picture and crackled sound of our seventeen-inch screen. We entered the Straus common room, and found ourselves amongst a large group of first-years. This prime episode had attracted Harvard students from across the yard--by my estimation a larger group than had assembled for both Game 5 of the World Series and the presidential election returns...
Meanwhile, an impromptu party sprang up in Straus Common Room...
...College Republicans celebrated at the Sigma Chi fraternity house while the Democrats gathered in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. Students also congregated at a slightly less partisan gathering at the IOP and at a spontaneous celebration in the Straus Common Room...