Word: williams
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Outgoing publisher William O. Reckler '99 said the publication defines its positions around the strengths of the people applying...
...winning American Pastoral, a high school golden-boy grows up to a life made miserable by Vietnam politics and 1970s economics, and in the National Book Award-winning Sabbath's Theater, Roth portrays the fat, megalo-maniacally horny Mickey Sabbath as a suicidal Statue of Liberty character. In what William Pritchard described as "one of the greatest sequences in American fiction," Sabbath goes down to the beach near his childhood home, wrapped in an American Flag, and with the accumulated force of 400 pages, soliloquies, "The Atlantic is a powerful ocean. Death is a terrible thing...It was all remarkable...
...William Shakespeare...
...Lords are being asked to overturn a High Court ruling that Pinochet enjoys immunity for crimes allegedly committed as head of state. "The legal issues at stake here have global implications," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "The argument being presented is that a crime against humanity cannot enjoy immunity in any circumstances. Setting that precedent would pardon dictators from Idi Amin to Karadzic -- it even would have pardoned Hitler." Meanwhile, France, Switzerland and Sweden are all completing their own extradition requests. Take a number and stand in line...
...concentrators interested in getting out of Gund Hall and the Carpenter Center should take note of this architectural gem: Frank Gehry, an archictect from Santa Monica, California, is visiting MIT this semester. He is delivering "Current Works," a lecture with Dean William Mitchell and James Glympf of Frank O. Gehry and Associates. Reception follows. 7 p.m. Wong Auditorium, MIT Tang Center, 2 Amherst St. 253-7791. FREE...