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...rocky, windswept slope some 2,000 ft. below the summit, expedition member Conrad Anker spotted "a patch of white"--brighter, he says, than any of the snow or rocks around it. Sprawled facedown on the mountainside, with arms outstretched and hands dug into the frozen ground, lay the bleached, mummified remains of a man. It was Mallory, his body almost perfectly preserved in the thin, dry air, a safety rope around his waist, and still partly clad in remnants of his tattered cotton, wool and tweed climbing clothes, the ragged collars stitched with markings G.L. MALLORY. He had apparently tumbled...
Putting an end to the exclusion of women would also benefit the clubs. Female members would broaden the social and intellectual horizons of members, not because they are brighter but simply because they are different. And there must be some men among the final clubs' members who, at least secretly, deplore their club's discrimination in membership men who have learned the lessons Harvard teaches--and these men could set their scruples at ease by admitting women...
...dimming in Belmont and Watertown, but together Young and Davidian are working on a brighter tomorrow for their community...
...dimming in Belmont and Watertown, but together Young and Davidian are working on a brighter tomorrow for their community...
Plenty of bad things happen in Street Kingdom, and K's easily injured pride and volcanic temper could mean further trouble ahead. The future looks brighter for Century. Perhaps he will get his interracial-buddy story optioned in Hollywood. Then the difference between fact and fiction would no longer matter...