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...released from the hospital and returned to my Washington home. My kids resumed their half-time life with me. Victor Vorobyev, a Russian émigré hired by TIME as my driver, chauffeured them to and from school. I overcame my nightmare of not being able to produce peanut butter sandwiches, with the help of technology from Captain Katie's OT kitchen. A sheet of sticky, rubbery material held the jar in place while I twisted off the top with my good hand and scooped...
...personal friend and colleague of ours, we’re going to have a huge impact on campus life. And also like Derek C. Bok, who has trouble returning phone calls, we’re super geniuses who can’t wait to pour buckets of hot wisdom butter all over your heads. Let’s get started. Freshmen, this past week has probably been the best time of your life. By day, you’ve ruled Annenberg, met 25 of the “coolest” nerds that you never knew existed, and mapped...
...American society. “Applebee’s America,” reads more like a Social Analysis textbook, with its monikers, catch-phrases and broad observations, than a New York Times non-fiction bestseller. Unless you are planning a campaign this fall or trying to butter up to Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Theda Skocpol for GSAS admissions, this is probably not the one book to read before the onslaught of syllabi. —Staff writer Kristina M. Moore can be reached at moore2@fas.harvard.edu...
...Sunday before he died, he and Trish called in on their way home from the airport. They'd eaten on the plane, but our seven-year-old decided to make him a sandwich. She tore holes in the bread with chunks of too-cold butter, stuck on a slice of ham and smeared the lot with enough hot English mustard to make a shark weep. Len ate it as though it were the finest dish ever offered to him, licked his lips and said, "Lucy, that was so delicious I simply have to have another." She beamed with...
...sturdy, it was built by Aboriginal workers out of anthills and spinifex. "This is where they'd sleep when they weren't camping out," says Burton. Those stockmen may have been flint hard, he says, but they were also well looked after. They were paid in provisions-sugar, tea, butter, flour and meat. Their kids were often sent to private schools, the fees paid by wealthy pastoralists. "The [late '60s] equal-pay decision mucked up the old system," says Burton. "It made workers too expensive. So most Aborig-inal stockmen ended up losing their jobs, stuck on welfare...