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Braudy has stitched more than 1,000 interviews into this dismal tale, and she offers her readers some delicious tidbits: Ann in India, ready to stalk tigers in 120 degrees weather, appearing in a wool hunting outfit lined with chinchilla. At a dinner honoring the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, a footman passes potato chips and onion dip with the cocktails. Unfortunately, Braudy's arsenal of adjectives is limited. Families tend to be "wealthy," living in "opulent homes." And there are some unfiltered howlers -- the Duke of "Marlboro," for one. After a while, without the leavening of irony, one begins...
...Duke University students with a cameratraverse the passage way behind the seats, timidlyapproach and remind her that they interviewed herat the democratic convention last month. They'vehad an easier time getting around the Astrodome,they say, than they had in Madison Square Garden...
...Daniel Chappel, a North Carolinan who willenter Duke University next year, says that to sayhe is pro-life is "putting it lightly...
...unusual abundance of food in a small area. This brings large numbers of bonobos into closer social contact than is typical for common chimpanzees. The presence of food can stimulate competition among the apes, and the larger the group the greater the danger of conflict. Frances White of Duke University argues that at these crucial times, sexual encounters reinforce bonds, particularly among females, helping individual apes to maintain access to food. Frans de Waal, the author of Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes, believes the varied sex reduces tensions and fosters conciliation among these intensely social animals...
...superb colleague," says Robert N. Brandon, chair of Duke's philosophy department. "I think he's quite unusual in having a range of interests from mainstream topics in analytic philosophy to contemporary culture to African thought. there are very few people who have that breadth...