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This insinuation is particularly strong in thelegend of the community's founding, which takes upa significant chunk of the novel's middle. Thefounder is the illegitimate son of an Irish monk,who raises the boy cloistered and influencedexclusively by the priestly life and thescriptures. When his father dies and the othermonks flee a famine, the boy is loosed upon thecountry. Having never encountered humans before,he viciously survives the hunger by murdering andcannibalizing those whom he has been taught inLatin to treat as Christ. He continues in similarfashion in Newfoundland, as a pirate terrorizingthe British Colony there until...

Author: By Carla A. Blackmar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Responding to the Call of the Great Blue | 5/15/1998 | See Source »

...When my father died, [McArthur] was setting upa fellowship in [my father's] name," Doyle says."My dad wasn't a big donor or anything, he was aboiler maker...

Author: By Susan A. Chen, | Title: B-School Dean Leaves His Mark | 3/11/1995 | See Source »

...into a French-controlled security zone in southwestern Rwanda and disarm Hutu militiamen -- unless the 2,000-man French force does it first. The threat came as theRPF seemed on the verge of rolling into the zone, the last territory not under its control. The Tutsis reportedly have set upa new government with a moderate Hutu as prime minister, even as the old Hutu cabinet tried to operate out of a half-empty luxury hotel.parpar

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RWANDA . . . REBELS TALK TOUGHER | 7/6/1994 | See Source »

...cartoon show that seems better suited to Saturday mornings. The concept is appealing: life in a suburban household as seen through the eyes of the ignored and abused family pet. And the pooch itself is amusingly drawn: a woebegone, teardrop-snouted creature, rendered in the spare lines of 1950s UPA animation (Mr. Magoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Dog, No New Tricks | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

...University already has taken a few moral stands on the South Africa issue: the Corporation, which runs Harvard's investment portfolio supports the Sullivan Principles for American companies providing guidelines for equality in the workplace in South Africa. Now, the Corporation has set upa $1 million fund to help Black South Africans and members of the Harvard community in their attempt to fight apartheid...

Author: By Victoria G. T. bassetti, | Title: Painted Into a Corner | 9/25/1985 | See Source »

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