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CLIP JOB This week in Los Angeles, Butterfield & Butterfield will auction off a tuft of Abraham Lincoln's hair, with, the catalog promises, traces of the President's blood still visible. The hair was clipped during Lincoln's postmortem and wrapped in a telegram, which is included. Bid estimates...
...foreword to the catalog claims that it is "possible to admire Edward Burne-Jones as the greatest British artist of the 19th century, after Turner and perhaps John Constable." One may demur at this, but the show is bound to be a smash hit with the American public, not just because it is full of the yearning sentimentality that has flooded into real life today--for there is a connection between Burne-Jones' semisacrificial English virgins, each one a Flower Beneath the Foot, and the emetically mawkish victim-cult of the late Princess Diana--but because its artfulness evokes intense...
...over. Thus, the service's decision to let the couple graduate with full honors is sparking waves of controversy in the barracks of the academy, at military bases and along Pentagon corridors, where some fear the academy's once strict regulations are becoming a loose, case-by-case catalog...
There were those Women's Leadership Awards, doled out last month at the Charles Hotel. There was that Abercrombie & Fitch-type catalog lauding the achievements of Harvard women. There was that October celebration of 25 years of co-residency in the Yard--a relatively un-newsworthy achievement considering that the houses have been integrated for 28 years, but nonetheless an opportunity for President Neil L. Rudenstine to pose for the cameras with proud, prominent Harvard women. Thrown in for good measure, all year long there's been a speaker series featuring women leaders in industry and academia. And lest...
...sale of electric-shock devices that can be used to abuse prisoners. Your writer Douglas Waller complains about the availability of stun weapons to the ordinary public but then gives names, manufacturers, locations and descriptions of the weapons! Maybe you didn't intend this to be a torture-weapons catalog, but it can serve as one. Waller made life easy for crooks and regimes that are looking for places to obtain these weapons! JACQUELINE CANTILLO Bogota...