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...welcome touch.) Hmmm, and now that I think about it, since the PSLM is upset that Harvard is stuck in the dark ages when it comes to the living wage, how about a medieval-theme formal? Since Harvard Yard has never had a proper formal, we could recreate Camelot...
...this proves only that managing a big brand into respectable middle age isn't easy. Consider that Branson is thinking about asking for up to $43 million from the government to cover the cost of maintaining his doomed bid to wrest the lottery franchise away from its current operator Camelot. All this for a business-not associated with any Virgin company-that was designed to give its profits to charity. Sir Richard says money can come from the Treasury, which taxes the lottery. But Norman Baker, the Liberal Democrats' spokesman on the lottery, warns that it would likely come...
...presided over the loss of our nuclear secrets behind a copy machine, the desperate members of the Clinton spin machine, George Stephanopoulos trying to look old, Lloyd Bentsen trying to look young and a first family that was to "Married with Children" what the Kennedy's were to "Camelot." We haven't had so much fun since before Henry Kissinger left public life. Clinton's team was fun to watch because they became larger than life as the administration wore on. We got to know their quirks, flaws and personalities--and we were amused...
...Vera gave me a tour of their huge house, which contains several thrones and swords from Camelot, an oil painting of Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn in On Golden Pond, and a hallway of pictures of Goulet with famous people, most of whose names neither of us could remember. He reads four newspapers a day and all the newsmagazines, which he clips. That, plus the slapping and his habit of breaking into song, and he reminded me a bit of a dangerous homeless man, only better looking...
...Exeter Academy in 1931, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. plays a board game called Camelot with a roommate whose mother is best friends from convent school with Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. In the 1970s, Schlesinger lives in a house on Manhattan's East 64th Street. He looks out his bedroom window one day and sees his neighbor Richard M. Nixon "prowling restlessly around his garden." In a little while a party begins at the Schlesinger house. A guest--invited by a friend of his wife's--comes to the door, a man whom Schlesinger has never met: Alger Hiss. They have a polite...