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...apologize if I sound like a skunk at a garden party," said Joan B. Pinck '50. "I think you need to put a better spin on it. I see myself calling people and saying all these things and explaining all these things and not walking away with a check...
...party but never of the party," says Senator Robert Torricelli, who succeeded him in 1996. "He did not come from the ranks. There was always a little distance." Instead, he built a network of outsiders--Princeton alumni, basketball stars, business leaders who'd been courtside at the Garden season after season. It's the same kind of network he has put together for his presidential run. "Nobody else did it before or since," says Torricelli. Bradley won his first race in a romp...
...help lower your risk of developing colorectal cancer. Eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day (a serving is half a cup for solid vegetables, a full cup for raw lettuce, or a medium-size banana, apple or orange). Do something physical--walk, dance, garden--at least three hours a week. Taking aspirin or estrogen may help, but check with your doctor first to find out if it's right for you. Often it's the little things we do for ourselves that make all the difference...
After reading your article on genetically modified food, I rented a Rototiller and turned my backyard into a garden [BUSINESS, Sept. 13]. We wonder at the increases in cancer, birth defects, mental illness. And yet we slap 100% tariffs on the E.U. as a backlash for its being fussy about accepting food with firefly genes and zucchini viruses. Maybe we should listen to countries that have been around a thousand years longer than our tyronic republic. As for me, I think I'll have a glass of water for dinner. On second thought, I'll fast. JOSEPH BYRD Holland, Mich...
...should have met in an elevator bank in 1969, since they lived on the same floor of a New York City building near Madison Square Garden. But while Schlant was many things--a German World War II survivor, a former Pan Am stewardess, an emigre, a divorced mother (she was married to an Atlanta doctor for five years and had a daughter, Stephanie St. Onge, now 40), an older woman (she's eight years Bradley's senior), a comparative literature Ph.D. and professor--she was not a sports fan. She says she had no idea who "Dollar Bill...