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...American landscape reassures us that another rendering of this story is warranted as long as America changes and does not remain a static arena into which the dispossessed pour. Feroza's uncle, Manek, brings her to Cambridge, where he is a student at MIT, after giving her a whirlwind tour of New York. Sidhwa's account of Harvard Square is especially appropriate considering that the Boston area has become the definitive American landscape in which many of these `new' immigrants--foreign students--are finding themselves. The glimpse of Feroza sitting with her uncle and his friend in front of Holyoke...
October 4, 1993, was a full news day. In Moscow, Boris Yeltsin stormed the White House with tanks; in Somalia, eighteen Americans were killed in the bloodiest violence yet directed against U.N. forces; in San Fransisco, President Clinton continued his whirlwind tour to pitch his health care plan. Amid all this, one piece of significant news didn't make the networks' evening programs until halfway through the broadcasts: After a 38-year career in the House of Representatives, House Minority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois announced his retirement from politics...
...rushed meeting," Emmeline Li '96 said of the final meeting, which was a hastily called emergency session. "It was a whirlwind of stuff...
...must understand this. Its underlying philosophy must change from "I think therefore I am " to "to be is to do." Otherwise Clinton's next three and one-half years will be no more successful than these past hundred days. And the administration will not turn out to be the whirlwind of change the campaign promised, but a four-year debating club for Friends of Bill...
...frenetic energy. Although some comic moments blow by too quickly to appreciate, the timing is generally impressive and the endless entrances and exits are surprisingly well-synchronized. Also impressive is the vivid red, green and black set, designed by Derek McLane, which allows the cast to revolve in a whirlwind of pointless but comical activity...