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Bushnell has compared herself with Edith Wharton, which is awfully grandiose for someone who churns out sentences like "Welcome to the age of Un-Innocence. No one has breakfast at Tiffany's, and no one has affairs to remember." But despite hokey prose, she is valuable as an arch and knowing observer of her Chateau Latour-imbibing universe. She mostly avoids the temptation to lay it on too thick, never making her "characters" more absurd than they prove themselves to be. Mercifully too, she has the good sense never to venture beyond her demographic. Reporting on the world of size...
...Clericuzios make the Corleones seem as if they just got off the boat. Gone from the new novel are the entry-level rackets and suspiciously profitable olive-oil business. Instead, family head Don Domenico Clericuzio rules an Exxon of organized crime aided by a son with a degree from Wharton. All the messiness of securing market share is in the past. Years before, the Clericuzios eliminated their main rivals, the Santadios, in one quick and nasty operation. Imagine a rewrite of Romeo and Juliet in which the Capulets throw a wedding and then slaughter the Montagues before dessert...
...polls close, and the next five minutes crawl by. Then polling experts project a narrow victory for Peres. "It could be as close as Kennedy and Nixon in 1960," says Shaath, who at the time was studying for a doctorate at the Wharton School of Finance in Philadelphia. "I remember that one well." (Later he would become a professor at Wharton. "That was fun," he recalls. "I taught corporate finance to the kids of all those Jewish investment bankers on Wall Street...
Annenberg graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He will receive an LL.D...
...Nigun: Jewish Musicians in New York, 1881-1945"; Nathan E. Lump '96 for "'Thus there are devils, there are spirits': Genre, Personal Experience, and Belief in Folkloristics and the Words of a Welsh Storyteller"; Elizabeth C. Marlantes '96 for "From the Mud Hut to the Parthenon: Edith Wharton's Search for the Ideal Home"; and James N. Miller '96 for "'Between the Boycotters and the Liftgivers': A Comparative History of the Bus Boycotts in Montgomery, Alabama and Johannesburg, South Africa...