Word: vi
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When she didn't gain a permanent faculty position, many of her students said they were greatly disappointed. Last month, Vi T. Ngyuen '98, a student in Fitzpatrick's History 1637, spearheaded a student petition drive protesting the University's decision to refuse her tenure...
...Vi T. Ngyuen '98 of Currier House started the list after a discussion in one of the course's sections about why Fitzpatrick had been denied tenure...
Andros Mark VI-A $70,000 (basic model) This hazardous-duty robot can climb stairs at a 45 [degree] angle and make 180 [degree] turns. It can carry two TV monitors and open fire on targets with a mounted shotgun. Its 17-in.-to-19-in. width allows it to get into tight spots...
THAT, OF COURSE, IS AN OVERsimplification. The book offers myriad fascinating examples of the fragility of the royal world. Bradford previously wrote a biography of George VI, and the strongest chapters of this book deal with Elizabeth's first 30 years, where Bradford's sources are strongest. The pages teem with hardy secondary players--the spoiled, resentful Duke of Windsor; the Queen Mother, tough as tacks but effervescently charming; the ambitious, meddling Lord Louis Mountbatten...
...Giroux), due out in the U.S. in April but excerpted in the London Times in January. Bradford, the author of several respected books, was considered a trusty by the palace, but once again the royals were wrong. Among her previous subjects is Elizabeth's father, the estimable, dull George VI. From that project she probably got some good sources for the new book. Beating Kitty Kelley, who has been working on a book reportedly centered on the Duke of Edinburgh, she offers speculation on Philip's romances. Her account of the woeful marriage between Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones...