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...prose style. Before his death in 1982 Cheever had regaled many interviewers and companions with tales of his past. The litany took on anecdotal grandeur: his glamorous New England ancestors, his childhood in Quincy, Mass., as the second son of a failed father and domineering mother, his expulsion from Thayer Academy, his struggles to make his name as a writer during the 1930s, and his growing < recognition as a regular contributor of short stories to The New Yorker; then marriage and three children -- Susan, Ben, Federico -- and the move to the exurbs north of New York City; increasing renown, novels...
...Third World development and atoning for its World War II guilt, Japan's almsgiving is prompted by enlightened self-interest. "If you want to see which countries are most important politically to Japan, just look down the list at how much aid they spend in each one," says Nathaniel Thayer, an expert in Asian studies at Johns Hopkins University. About two-thirds of Tokyo's assistance goes to Asia, a proportion that reflects its stake in the region as both a market for Japanese products and a source of cheap labor...
...addition, the pair of Kirkland House tutor Bill Cole, a third year graduate student, and Michael D. Mitzenmacher '91 of Thayer Hall was ranked first in the world. The pair of James C. Colen '90 of Mather House and H. Scott Roy '89 of Winthrop House was named the seventh best pair...
Adelaide E. Foster '88 says she was tired of dormitory life after four years of boarding school and two years at Harvard. During freshman year she and some Thayer Hall friends thought about living off campus and, after sampling North House for a year, they rented a home in Allston...
Kaplan, who lived in Lowell House, was spending his junior year in Michigan, where he worked in a Detroit psychology research lab. As a Harvard freshman, Kaplan lived in Thayer North...