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Churchill understandably exulted in the success of the D-day invasion when it came in 1944. By then it was the Russo-American rather than the Anglo-American nexus, however, that dominated the alliance, as he ruefully recognized at the last Big Three conference in February 1945. Shortly afterward he suffered the domestic humiliation of losing the general election and with it the premiership. He was to return to power in 1951 and remain until April 1955, when ill health and visibly failing powers caused him to resign...
...Rebecca Russo, director of admissions at TuftsUniversity School of Veterinary Medicine, says heroffice receives four or five applicants fromHarvard each year. Russo says Harvard studentshave the same chances of admission as any otherapplicant but are aided by the Harvard reputation...
...Obviously, the committee knows that Harvardhas a strong [science] program," Russo says...
...Bring ear plugs. The blaring Russo-Celtic hip-hop that passes for a score persists long after the annoying opening montage has concluded...
...latest and one of the funniest of these vengeful academic burlesques is Richard Russo's Straight Man (Random House; 391 pages; $25). Russo, a former professor at Colby College in Maine and author of The Risk Pool and Nobody's Fool, commences his slapstick when William Henry Devereaux Jr., creative-writing teacher and chairman of the English department at an obscure Pennsylvania college, makes a slighting remark about a colleague's poetry. She whacks him across the face with a notebook, and the metal coil hooks his nose...