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...London in the 1950s, Jack Rathbone meets the already established Scottish painter Vera Savage. Thirteen years older, she's a nasty if bewitching specimen--brilliant when she cares to be but also alcoholic, feckless and carnal. The story of their long, dissolute companionship is told to us by Gin Rathbone, Jack's all-too-loving sister, a woman who does not grasp the full dimensions of the tale she is telling...
Then there are the national implications. "The Bush Administration will love to have this debate in a number of key states, including ours, so they can gin up their base," says Stephen Schneider, an aide to Democratic Governor Ted Kulongoski. Democrats point out that in 2000 Al Gore won the state by just 6,800 votes; now they fear that conservatives enraged by gay marriage will more than make up that difference at the polls...
...That same night, several friends and I were in the pimpin’ Lowell suite of a friend who is very generous with his high-quality alcohol. On our third gin and tonic, the cellphone of Simon W. Vozick Levinson ’06, the very FM writer assigned to interview Chopra, started blowin’ up like crazy, yo. On the other end was the tardy Chopra, asking whether we had started the movie. We told him we forwent Jane A to party, and he was all about to join us getting down when he realized that our host...
...don’t have to be Pat Buchanan’s gin partner to admit that Weatherhead University Professor Samuel P. Huntington has offered a worthwhile contribution to our public discourse on immigration and Americanism. One-one-thousand, two-one-thousand, three-one-thousand. Okay, I realize that may have caused a fair number of readers to spray their Froot Loops or orange juice all over the page—so let me explain...
MEANWHILE IN THE U.K. ... Anyone for a Drink? The University of Manchester admitted employing a man who'd earlier been jailed for attempting to poison his wife. His new job: lecturer on medical ethics. Paul Agutter was convicted in 1995 of lacing his wife's gin and tonic with deadly atropine. To cover his tracks, he placed bottles of tonic water spiked with the poison on supermarket shelves. The University said it had followed "due process" in the appointment...