Word: totality
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GOODMAN'S book is primarily about the problems of maintaining conservative Jewish values in unlikely settings--Hawaii and Oxford, England. Total Immersion is about identity and the problems of balancing different cultures and reconciling tradition with modern problems...
...Total Immersion...
THERE is something about Allegra Goodman's collection of short stories, Total Immersion that reminds me of my grandmother. When my grandmother, who is from the South, tells a story, you hear about the person's relatives and the relatives' relatives, and their relatives...
...travel, the authorities in Sofia agreed to issue passports and exit visas to ethnic Turks with the aim of limiting further clashes by reducing the size of the Turkish minority, and the mass exodus began. By last week 238,000 had crossed the border. Officials in Ankara believe the total could reach...
Federal prosecutors were popping champagne corks in New York City as well last week. A Manhattan jury convicted five executives of Princeton/Newport Partners and a former trader for Drexel Burnham Lambert of 63 felony counts stemming from illegal stock-trading schemes. They were fined a total of $3.8 million. The case marked the first time the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act has been used against Wall Street executives, and thus lays the groundwork for the Government's prosecution of junk-bond king Michael Milken, formerly of Drexel. Since Drexel was Princeton/Newport's main partner in the illegal trades, evidence...