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...list of these abuses is mindboggling, ranging from a secret police network to an extensive system of laogai, or prison camps, filled with political prisoners, to forced abortions for purposes of population control, to the brazen and brutal occupation of Tibet. It would take a serious tome to document these abuses in their entirety...
...tutors and the Dean and assistant deans of freshmen have reviewed College regulations concerning parties, deliveries of kegs to the Houses and use of Beverage Authorization Teams to ensure that underage drinkers will not be served at Harvard functions. Each undergraduate received at registration a complete compendium (the "Drug Tome") of relevant information about state and federal law, College regulations and the sanctions for violating them and medical resources and procedures. Students with questions about these matters should consult the office of the Dean of Students...
LONDON: The Booker Prize, the laurel wreath offered annually to the most worthy tome written in Britain, Ireland or Commonwealth countries, has gone this year to first-time female novelist Arundhati Roy's ?The God of Small Things...
Beginning this fall, members will run afterschool workshops on diversity at Charlestown High School, which was depicted in the Pulitzer-Prize-winning tome Common Ground by former Crimson executive J. Anthony Lukas '54 as the site of anti-busing unrest during the 1970s...
...copy machines are working overtime in Hollywood with galleys of Killer Instinct, a forthcoming tell-all tome that chronicles the making of Natural Born Killers. Written by one of the film's producers, JANE HAMSHER, the gossipy book is filled with wicked wit, mostly skewering screenwriter QUENTIN TARANTINO and director OLIVER STONE. Though stories of Stone's bacchanalian ways and Tarantino's saucy self-confidence are nothing new, Hamsher's gonzo take on NBK's evolution offers an insider's view of show-biz egos. Among the choice bits: details about Stone's stoned-out mushroom trip in the desert...