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...knows that he hates the chains of sexual identity. Throughout his literary career he has played endlessly with the notions of bisexuality or transsexuality. If readers find the new novel repellent, it may be that it is no longer easy to laugh at scenes in which Nero rapes Timothy ("Tighten those beautiful little buns") or to laugh off lewd goings-on along the missionary trail...
Higher book costs have also prompted professorsto tighten up reading lists or offer sourcebookswith passages taken from several books...
Higher book costs have also prompted professorsto tighten up reading lists or offer sourcebookswith passages taken from several books...
Cole said the library currently has a sign-infor library users who are not affiliated withHarvard. The library would "tighten up" entranceprocedures if the division became more accessible,she said...
...renewed exodus, the real culprit is a pervasive sense of hopelessness on the island fostered by the ambivalent policies of Haiti's neighbors. Military leaders seized power last September from the popularly elected President, Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide, but the Organization of American States decided only this month to tighten its embargo by barring ships from their ports that traded with Haiti. The U.S. supports the embargo and is pressuring the European Community to stop sending supplies, but the Pentagon has refused to strong-arm its onetime military allies into accepting an OAS-brokered peace plan...