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...spent a semester in Cambridge interning for the National Labor Relations Board, didn't know where she was going. After dining at Harvard Hillel with her sister, Deborah Klapper, the wife of Hillel's Rabbi Robert Klapper, she could not seem to find the way back to her apartment. Ernest I. Mandel '01 came to the gallant rescue and offered a walk home...
...Commerce, Science and Transportation GOP chair: John McCain, Arizona Democratic chair: Ernest Hollings, South Carolina Effect of change: Bush may see McCain ouster as a plus, not a minus...
...sweat of former dropout Ernest Chavez, 17, hunched over a computer, intent on making up enough courses to graduate with his class. It's there when Sergeant Jose Campos, 62, who has been teaching Junior ROTC for 24 years, brags that this year he has "87 young ladies in my program"--the most ever. And you hear it in the school's mariachi band, practicing before sunrise. A visit to Louis W. Fox Academic and Technical High School in San Antonio, Texas, shows how far the school has come. Just five years ago, it was the worst school in Texas...
...Ernest Hemingway also managed a certain amphibianism. He drank prodigiously at night, then had the discipline to rise in the morning and write for several hours before the sun crept toward the yardarm and it was time to drink again. The Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, a talented fanatic, would attend dinner parties until midnight, then go home and write until dawn. He died by ritual suicide in the midst of leading his private militia in a notably screwball coup attempt at a Japanese army headquarters...
...arrangement behind which Scott has hidden his genius from the outside world is all about to come undone, two days before Scott’s 183rd birthday. In pursuit of relative peace and anonymity, Anderson has traditionally had so-called artists, like writers F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway, sign contracts where they get all the credit and half the money if they just keep their mouths shut. The problem is that Scott has suddenly decided he wants full recognition for all the work he has done. He wants people to remember...