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DIED. FREDERICK KNOTT, 86, angst-ridden playwright of Dial M for Murder who wrote for money but hated the craft; in New York City. Dial M, a clever, tense mystery that focused on law enforcement's attempts to break down the alibi of a man who has killed his wife, started as a TV special and later became a successful play and a 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film...
...idea of heaven is fly-fishing in silence. About every six weeks, the Cheneys invite 16 scholars, artists and authors for dinner. Lynne kicks off the discussion but is aware the group doesn't need much help, since there are few shrinking violets. "Smart people are naturally funny and clever." The Cheneys spend some nights at official events, like the Kennedy Center Honors, other nights eating off trays in the den and a surprising number of nights casually out and about. The Cheneys have even dined at the mecca of Georgetown limousine liberals, chez Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn...
...recruiting dozens of our friends to wear shirts with various therapeutic messages. They were to say things like, “I don’t care how much work you have,” “Relax and stop whining” and the oh-so-clever “Zzzzzip...
...clever, similar, but currently unfulfilling argument used to justify high taxes on cigarettes is that smokers will have greater incentive to quit if their habit costs them more money, and since they’ll be better off cigarette-free in the long run, a tax discouraging smoking actually makes smokers happier. This argument also relies on the government-knows-best assumption, along with the idea that since smoking is addictive and people get hooked when they are young, they never make a conscious rational decision to smoke. While some individuals might be happier as tax-induced former smokers, second...
Ingram was one of the three leading returning scorers in the nation during the 2001-02 season. In her last game—a 9-2 thrashing of No. 5 Dartmouth on Nov. 9—Ingram scored a clever goal that put Harvard ahead for good when she deflected a puck off the body of Big Green goaltender Amy Ferguson from an impossible angle on the end line...