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...chapter in the firm's relationship with Harvard may have ended when Burr resigned from the Corporation and was replaced by Colman M. Mockler Jr. '52, the chief executive officer of Gillette (a Ropes and Gray client whose account Burr helps handle). During his years on the governing board. Burr says he avoided personally handling any legal work for the University, citing an old lawyer's adage. "An attorney who represents himself has a fool for a client...
...monthlong festivities mark more than a new page in the life of Sir Muda Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'Izzaddin Waddaulah; they herald a fresh chapter in the history of his sultanate. On Jan. 1, 1984, Brunei will, somewhat gingerly, gain its independence. After 96 years of British rule, the transition is bound to be tricky. Although since 1959 Britain has looked after nothing more than foreign affairs and defense for the Sultan, it has also, for an estimated annual fee of $12 million, supplied the nation with a highly disciplined corps of 750 Gurkha soldiers. In a rare interview...
Many of the characters are shrewdly if harshly drawn stereotypes. Only Dawn is wholly likable, and her situation is so extreme that the reader pays a credulity tax with almost every chapter. Dr. Shinefeld, effective as a therapist, is a lulu of a loser as a woman. Ressner's treatment suggests that what another writer called the Impossible Profession is still beyond easy analysis. -By William A. Henry...
...another grim chapter in the 34-month-old war between Iran and Iraq. Regular troops and Islamic Guards from Iran penetrated six miles into Iraq last week, pursuing Kurdish rebels who had raided Iranian government outposts and seizing a small Iraqi garrison at the border. The Iranian attack was typical of the pattern of the war. Major cross-border assaults are followed by fierce counterattacks, followed by exaggerated casualty claims. But even allowing for customary hyperbole, the toll was high. Iran claimed that its forces had killed or wounded 3,800 Iraqis; Iraq took credit for 1,400 Iranian casualties...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Neil Simon, 55, playwright and screenwriter; and Marsha Mason, 41, actress for whom he wrote lead parts in the movies Max Dugan Returns, Only When I Laugh, The Goodbye Girl and Chapter Two, the last a lightly disguised comic portrait of their courtship and marriage; after ten years of marriage; no children; in Los Angeles...