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...like to foster a spirit of international cooperation, and perhaps a little more than in the real world, compromise and working together," said Aurora J.S. Swithen-bank '97, charge d'affaires for the conference...
...squabbles of one generation, is rescued by the next and eventually transformed into a fantastic and far-reaching crime syndicate. Moraes is betrayed by a beautiful vixen, imprisoned, and then released on the condition that he go to work as a goon for his father's rival crime boss. Aurora Zogoiby, mother to Moraes, becomes a celebrated painter, her paintings stolen, burned, hidden, fought over...
...story that Moraes--nicknamed the Moor by his parents--most urgently wants to tell is how his "happy childhood in Paradise" ended in a bitter exile decreed by his mother Aurora da Gama Zogoiby, a famous painter and one of India's most controversial women. But since he is literally writing for time, the Moor throws in a whole lot more: everything he has heard or can remember or dream up about his mother's family. The eccentric and marvelously fractious Da Gamas trace their lineage, perhaps incorrectly, to the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, who was the first European...
...discussion. These are legitimate possibilities, presented by the explosion of biological diversity, that do not fit nicely into Darwin's theory. I had studied them in my biology class but found it frustrating that many others were not familiar with them. This report was a bold move. KEVIN SMITH Aurora, Illinois...
Novelists reveal themselves as performers, or shamans, or unloved children, or observers of bugs through microscopes. The Australian writer Thomas Keneally is a builder, a gifted, painstaking maker of books. After 20 novels, including Schindler's List and A Victim of the Aurora, a reader imagines him rummaging through his barn for old beams and bricks stored years before and never used. Stories, perhaps, told by his grandparents, who were storekeepers in Australia's Macleay River Valley. He sorts the tales, considers which can still bear weight, begins to sketch a plan for A River Town (Doubleday; 324 pages...