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...Austin L.Y.B. Spencer ’03 faces a vexing dilemma. “I will not wed the daughter of Lord Sothersby,” he announced. “Though my family doth wish it, she hath not my heart.” Word on the street is that he pines for Mary Kelly ’04, who is exceeding clever, but unfortunately Irish. “She is more fit to be a chambermaid than a bride,” sniffed Spencer’s father, Lord Nigel Spencer...
...half-shell and Flora in La Primavera. Vespucci may have looked like that, or she may not. Maybe she was a blond pudge like Pamela Anderson. Getting tumbled in a wave of neo-Platonic fantasizing about how outer shape mirrors inner essence--"For Soule is Forme, and doth the Bodie make," wrote the poet Spenser in 1596--may be great for the figure and complexion when court painters like Botticelli and writers like Marsilio Ficino or Angelo Poliziano are watching, but it's not so good for documentary truth. As faithful records of human appearance, these 15th and 16th century...
...Britain: If the heart doth lead the way, the Windsors are allowed to bespouse equines, badgers or pit bulls Monaco: Stephanie is eternally consigned to the circus. Prince Albert-in-a-can jokes are strictly verboten The Netherlands: All members of the bicycle-loving royal family are given free examinations for testicular cancer Spain: Dashing princes are required to wed dim, tanned-all-over Scandinavian models Italy: The royal family, exiled since 1946, are allowed to return to their thrones?provided they can spawn and install heirs as frequently as Rome produces Prime Ministers Thailand: No male may surgically transform...
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...munching march to irrelevance. We will miss him because in an age of small men, when lackluster eldest sons duel for the presidency and petty time-servers scrabble for scraps in Congress, Bill Clinton was huge, a towering figure across our political landscape. Like Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, he "doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus," and his defeated enemies could only join voice with Cassius in saying that "the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings...