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...Republic of China. Hot off the presses, Paul Theroux?s ?Kowloon Tong? (Houghton Mifflin; 243 pages; $23) offers Theroux?s imaginative version of how some Hong Kong residents have fared -- and will fare -- in the face of such a monumental and imminent change, writes TIME Literary Critic Paul Gray. Neville Mullard, 43, lives with his widowed mother Betty in a Hong Kong house called, in honor of their native land, Albion Cottage. The late George Mullard left his wife and son, nicknamed Bunt, half-ownership of Imperial Stitching, a garment-manufacturing firm located in an eight-story building in Hong...
Suckled on his mother's public disappointment, son Axel pursues power behind the scenes. He becomes one of the capital's gray eminences, "a fixer without portfolio" whose fusion of public and private business seems more like class privilege than conflict of interest...
Donald H. Pfister, Gray professor of systemic biology and a member of the Faculty Council, said that while "everyone would agree that small classes are a good means of instruction," there were concerns about the practicality of the goal...
Inter-library Loan Assistant Wilson Gray said Playboy readership was not limited to library patrons...
...There's a special men's room open only to staff and faculty, and we find them there too," Gray said...