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Jennifer Lash wrote six books and bore six children. Her last novel, Blood Ties, written while she was dying of cancer, was rejected by her usual publishers and a string of others, and she died without selling it. But her children, the eldest of whom is actor RALPH FIENNES, weren't about to let it rest at that. While making The English Patient, Fiennes mentioned the book to Patient author Michael Ondaatje, who suggested the actor pitch it to his publisher, who loved it and bought it. Not content with that, half the Fiennes family (sister Sophie and brother Joseph...
...wrote my first ever story for The Crimson about a Harvard soccer victory over Columbia back in the fall of 1992 (several lifetimes ago, for most of us) and played in my first golf tournament for Harvard several weeks later. What happy thoughts, what beautiful memories I could bore you with in this space if I chose...
...daunting and there were points when I wondered if I could deal with it," says Gorelick, of public scrutiny and critique. But the former Quincy House resident is quick to note that an undergraduate aspiration to "change the world" bore fruit thanks to her three-year stay at the Justice Department...
...could not remember whether he had seen it that day or the day before, Easter Sunday. Obviously, if McGown saw the truck on April 16, it could not have been the same truck McVeigh is said to have rented. Nineteen years old, McGown became incoherent and stammered as Jones bore...
DIED. LAURIE LEE, 82, British poet whose memoirs traced the paths of his boyhood and the Andalusian trails of war; in Gloucestershire, England. The Edge of Day bore the musty scent of memory--and first love...