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John Edgar Wideman subtitles his eighth novel, Two Cities (Houghton Mifflin; 242 pages; $24), "A Love Story," but his version of that familiar genre seems at times the antithesis of standard romance. Robert Jones, 50, meets Kassima, 35, at a dance club, and she eventually invites him back to her house. Good sex leads to good conversation and then to love, an emotion that fills Kassima with terror and dread. Within a recent span of 10 months, both of her teenage sons were killed by gang violence in her Pittsburgh neighborhood and their father died of aids he contracted...
Others study Spanish, immigration or bilingual education out of academic interest, or because they have volunteered teaching English-as-a-Second-Language to eighth graders in East Los Angeles or because they realize over thirty percent of the U.S. population will speak Spanish by 2050. I suspected my reasons were less noble. And this suspicion, however slight, turned first to guilt but then to an important realization...
...size of the College's eighth largest class,General Education 105, "The Literature of SocialReflection," has increased more than 30 percent to307 students. The course is taught by AgeeProfessor of Social Ethics Robert Coles...
...Connor and Bern Noac, Harvard sailors excelled at Nevin's on Saturday. Junior Christian Taubman, who manned a double-handed boat in the Division A racing, finished fourth overall in the 10-race event. Freshman Margaret Gile, affectionately known as "Sea Bass" by her teammates, finished an impressive eighth place in the Division B race...
Donahue also emphasized that not all the communities of the Eighth District are prospering from the nation's economic strength...