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...days of solitude may have helped solidify the marriage and increase Nelson's dependence on his wife. "Had it not been for your visits, wonderful letters and your love, I would have fallen apart many years ago," Nelson wrote Winnie from his Robben Island prison cell in 1979. His sense of family and corresponding feelings of guilt at having left her and their two daughters behind also helped cement the relationship. "I have often wondered whether any kind of commitment can ever be sufficient excuse for abandoning a young and inexperienced woman in a pitiless desert," he wrote in another...
While the health risk is real, so too is the potential for eggsessive overreaction. Even though cooking kills salmonella bacteria, the hard-boiled food industry has fallen in love with the safety and shelf life of pasteurized liquid eggs. Since last fall, Hyatt hotels have dished up fresh eggs only when a guest explicitly requests them sunny-side up. Diners are not told of this shell game, for as a Hyatt spokeswoman insists, "to the average person's taste, I don't think you'd notice." Liquid eggs have become the norm at fast- food chains (Burger King...
...Lazy 8 ranch outside Dillon, Mont., a handful of tired cowboys shuffle into the calving barn for lunch. Troy Seilbach hangs up his spurs. Charlie Carpenter opens a thermos of coffee, and Blue, a dirty mixed-breed dog with a heavy pant, positions himself for a fallen crumb from one of the cowboys' Baggies-wrapped sandwiches. Emblazoned on the lunchroom's white wall is a hastily drawn map of Japan...
Despite the international billing, the regatta became a showcase for the Ivy League as Princeton and Brown joined the Crimson and Northeastern in the final. The Bruins, who had fallen to Harvard a week earlier, were viewed as Harvard's biggest threat...
Earlier that day, the Crimson had fallen, 14-8, to the powerhouse Metro-Boston club team, a squad Harvard has traditionally struggled against. Harvard was coming off its solid 10-7 defeat of Queens, a New York club team, earlier that...