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...owned subsidiary of Eden. The evenings sound with the calls of nightingales, thrushes, plovers and owls; the rivers brim with trout; and the towns are peopled by honest peasants and serene aristocrats. One recalls a nobleman's dispensation of whisky to his neighbor's yeomanry. "Unfortunately, he forgot to provide water .. . 'We had to drink it or perish miserably of thirst' . . . It took a full week-end before the last of them had found his way home." White analyzes the philosophy of fishing in a style that Izaak Walton might envy, and his descriptions of dartboard...
...same frequency, in a neighboring theater, where The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas was playing. (A wireless body mike, hidden on a performer's costume, is in effect a tiny radio, broadcasting to a receiver offstage.) And everyone in the business remembers the time one actress forgot to turn off her mike when she went backstage. The audience was treated to a few obscenities and the electronically enhanced sound of a toilet flushing...
...Following that initial conviction, three other Harvard-affiliated doctors wrote flattering letters of recommendation for Hussain, with which he landed a new position at Buffalo Children's Hospital. The Buffalo facility apparently had not heard about the highly publicized trial, and Hussain's three patrons all somehow forgot to mention his recent legal entanglement. For their negligence, the letterwriters were reprimanded by but not expelled from the Massachusetts Medical Society...
...final? Listen to Diana Whitty, the official in the registrar's office who supervises the administration of exams. "The most terrible things can happen," she says. "Once a Buildings and Grounds crew turned off all the water in Memorial Hall and started tearing apart the mens room--they forgot an exam was going on that...
While fair-weather athletes are just coming out, Harvard's varsity teams have been practicing for months in anticipation of the short spring season. In case you forgot some of what goes on behind the stadium and Business School, here's a refresher...