Word: butler
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Many at the Citadel--which over the years has graduated countless members of South Carolina's ruling class--are choosing, like Mace, to be gracious in defeat. Most are simply relieved the battle is over. As Bryant Butler, the 23-year-old Regimental Commander of the Corps of Cadets, says, "Not one male incoming freshman I've talked to said he didn't want to attend because women would be here. As a matter of fact, some said they felt more comfortable now that the decision was made." And when alumni learned of a woman who had been accepted...
Still, there are some things that Wills, as he grows older, can learn from his father's hard experience. One is that he cannot rely on others to be discreet. While Charles was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, the wife of R.A. Butler, a Tory elder statesman and Master of the College, introduced him to Lucia Santa Cruz, the daughter of the Chilean ambassador. When the young pair hit it off, the Butlers boasted that Charles had learned the fine points of physical love from Santa Cruz. Another lesson is that however irresponsible his parents became, they at least...
...computer-controlled indulgence, this $2,000-a-night, 2,000-sq.-ft. hotel room, unveiled in June, is a temple to technological excess. Guests can draw a bath, close the drapes, dim the lights or crank up the stereo simply by speaking commands into the Cyber Suite's electronic "Butler in a Box." There's a fully wired wide-screen net TV for easy video conferencing and Web surfing, a new digital videodisc player that shows films in eight different languages and a headset for exploring the make-believe world of virtual reality. "Thirty years ago, we were the first...
...techno-thriller sci-fi, gay and lesbian sci-fi and even sci-fi erotica. Readership and authorship have broadened too: women now account for a third of the science-fiction audience, compared with just 10% in the '50s, and such writers as Ursula Le Guin and Octavia E. Butler (one of sci-fi's few African-American authors) are no longer considered invaders in a men's club...
...Savannah, Mark Reynolds, Hal Haenel, Courtney Becker-Dey and Lanee Butler lead an American contingent that hopes to continue the success of Barcelona, where the U.S. won nine medals, more than any other team...