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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...speculate that the league may split in two: an anti-Saddam faction based in Cairo and a pro-Saddam grouping based in Tunis. That might be all to the good; it would leave the moderates free to pursue their own interests without the necessity of trying to reach some sort of consensus with Saddam's supporters...
...admit women, provoking a few harrumphs and a few more shrugs. Social posturing was taken more seriously in the '50s. Still, readers may feel that the hero's affronted psyche is a bit fragile. Novelist John O'Hara, who never went to college, used to be fascinated by this sort of folderol, and his friends joked about taking up a collection to send him to Princeton. Wolff is a skilled memoirist (The Duke of Deception) and novelist (Inklings), but maybe somebody should arrange a scholarship for him at Michigan State...
...Sherry used to be sort of daring," says Trumball Professor of American History Donald H. Fleming. But he says the aspiring academicians of the 1990s, health conscious as they are, have moved onto a lighter fare...
...Some are very well dressed [and] dapper," she says of Robinson Hall inhabitants. "There isn't that sort of 1960s sloppiness...
Despite the hardships, there seems to be little grumbling of the sort that attended previous reserve call-ups. Like the regular military, today's reserves are an all-volunteer force whose members joined for various reasons: extra income, a chance for free training in a specialty allied to their civilian jobs, or travel (reserve units have trained with regulars as far away as Egypt). Some may have joined thinking they would never be called, but most have long accepted that they might be. Now that it has happened, many view their service as a necessary repayment for whatever benefits they...