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...Zivjeli! ("Bottoms up!" in Serbo-Croatian). All reserves may be needed, however, before the closing ceremony, Feb. 19. The proud and fiery Yugoslavs have quelled their tendency to airy improvisation, and they have succeeded against considerable odds in transforming an amiable Balkan backwater into a cred ible third-rank winter resort. This is a lot higher up in the rankings than any visitor to the grim and snowless 1980 Olympics would place Lake Placid, N.Y. (First-rank resorts like Saint-Moritz or Sun Valley generally don't want the Olympics these days. Why disrupt an already profitable business...
...collection also includes two novellas that rank as classics, not only in Colette's canon, but in all of 20th century French literature. The Tender Shoot is the story of a singularly nasty middle-aged roue's pursuit of a 15-year-old peasant girl. Upon this squalid tale, Colette lavished her most lyrical language and poetic fancies, heightening the sense of evil...
...future election. Keverian's challenge had an immediate polarizing effect on the House, as representatives scurried to choose up sides. The battle lines were fairly well drawn only days later when McGee drew first blood: Keverian was sacked as Majority Leader and demoted to the status of rank and file member. A high-ranking Keverian ally, Charles F. Flaherty of Cambridge, also lost his job as House Chairman of the Joint Taxation Committee...
...that the Chou Emperor who ruled China in 1090 had one empress, three consorts, nine spouses, 27 concubines and 81 assistant concubines, whose rotation of duty was exactly scheduled over the course of each fortnight so that the women of highest rank occupied the imperial bed on the nights closest to the full moon...
...Harvard. But, Ladd cautions, students should go "to staff, not as superiority intelligent students, but asking for help." She thinks there could be cooperation between all women at Harvard. And there needs to be if the divisive and ineffective policies set up by Harvard--an undemocratic institution which would rank about 82 on the Fortune 500--are to be changed...