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...baiting and McCarthyism in the U.S., when communists, actual or accused, were hounded into disgrace and unemployment or jail. One of them, according to Roth's novel, was Iron Rinn, ne Ira Ringold, a gangly (6-ft. 6-in.) son of Newark who had circuitously risen, after his military service during World War II, to become a prominent radio actor in Manhattan. Ira's new fame brings rewards. He marries Eve Frame, a one-time star of silent films, then Broadway and now radio, and moves into her elegant Greenwich Village townhouse, where Sylphid, Eve's 23-year-old daughter...
...past year, Harvard has risen to meet that challenge. Last year's tuition increase is the lowest in 30 years, and its effects are compounded by last month's announcement of changes in the financial aid policy resulting in an additional $9 million annually among undergraduates...
...Risen said a party in C-Entryway was using a smoke machine that may have set off the fire alarm...
When Sarah E. Cohen '01, Michelle A. Groman '01, Jaqueline A. Mesnick '01 and Jane L. Risen '01, all residents of Adams H-32, went to bed on Saturday night, they left their common room door open...
...were sleeping," Risen said. "My roommate thought it was another roommate coming late. We did not really know until the morning that it was a burglar...