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Returning married and rejuvenated, his second time at Harvard proved to be the charm. Focusing on economics rather than pre-medical studies, Clark found his niche. After a stellar undergraduate career in the economics department, he earned a master's degree in 1977 and followed it with a doctorate...
...actual Ned Kelly, who was hanged for murder in 1880, left behind some papers, and Carey has seamlessly grafted his fictional additions onto the existing historical records. But the power and charm of True History arise not from fidelity to facts but rather from the voice Carey invents for Ned Kelly, the son of Irish parents (his father a transported criminal), barely educated by a British schoolmaster who thought that "all micks was a notch beneath the cattle." Like most criminals, Ned believes he is innocent, that whatever wrongs he committed were acts of self-defense against an unjust society...
Cassandra, as our friends and my relatives are always eager to point out, is far better looking than I, and would certainly get an 8 or 9. Then we'd all learn a valuable lesson about vanity, shallowness and the fact that I, through wit and charm alone, landed a smoking-hot girlfriend...
...starring a dream roster of the country's hottest male actors. There are hundreds of such clubs in areas like Tokyo's Kabuki-cho and they vie for business via cell phones and the Internet, which has search sites that rank the city's top hosts by looks and charm quotient. For the customers, Japan's trend-conscious young women, a night at a host bar is part thrill, part danger. The thrill, of course, is somewhat sexual: the guys are attentive, hunky and dangle the possibility they might be available after the clubs close. The danger is financial: after...
...cheap first-time fee of $50 to $100. On that visit, she must choose her "main" host. Because whomever she picks will receive an up-front commission and half the take from all of her bills whenever she comes to the club, the whole staff showers the newcomer with charm. For a Japanese woman consigned to supporting roles all her life, the star treatment is pretty irresistible. (If she grows sick of her main host, she simply shifts her business to a new club...