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...desolate quarter of Jerusalem, I met a schoolteacher cousin of Arafat, who said she would recollect what she could and tell me if 1 would come to her apartment in a few days, but only after dark. Two nights later, we met in her house at the end of an unlighted stony track at the edge of Jerusalem. She spoke willingly, but when I asked her why she insisted on seeing me at night, she said only, 'It is Ramadan and we fast during the day; I could not serve you coffee before dark...
...when his brother died, he began his battle to inherit the baronetcy. As the nearest male relative, he seemed entitled to press the claim. But a cousin, 40-year-old John Forbes-Sem-pill, contested the succession, asserting that he was the rightful heir because Sir Ewan had been registered as female at birth and females cannot inherit baronetcies. "My client," Sir Ewan's counsel retorted, "has been male since birth. He was wrongly registered as a female." Earlier this year, an Edinburgh court accepted Sir Ewan's arguments, and last week Home Secretary James Callaghan settled...
Williams is the director of Biology 2, the souped-up cousin of bio's other big introductory course, Nat. Sci. 5. George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology and head of Nat Sci 5, questioned the feasibility of moving the lab for his course from the Biology building to the Center...
Thanksgiving Visitor, set in backwoods Alabama, elaborates on Capote's glowing relationship with his only boyhood friend, an old spinster cousin named Miss Sook. She had no education and had never traveled beyond the county borders. She was "a poet of a kind but deeply suppressed. She might have been an Emily Dickinson in another culture." In the simple TV tale, she coddles young "Buddy" (as Capote is called) and tries to shield him from his dour and insensitive relatives in the parentless household. The casting, supervised by the author, is impeccable. Geraldine Page, who won an Emmy award...
...York City police, tying up its emergency number for more than three hours. In a further display of exquisite timing, NBC belatedly announced the results of the game in two news streamers, one of which chugged across the bottom of the screen just when Heidi's paralytic cousin tried to walk for the first time...