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When the newlyweds arrive in K.T., Lidie quickly realizes that whatever romantic fantasies she had about frontier life are nothing like the harsh environment she suddenly finds herself immersed in. Fortunately, Thomas's friends and their wives prove to be characters sparkling with personality and wit, who make the brutally cold first winter almost tolerable. Soon her adventurous nephew Frank arrives, and Lidie's life, though difficult, brings her contentment...
...pranks got more and more serious over the course of the society's 100 years. Eventually, each initiate was made to perform an act that could get him expelled at the very least and perhaps land him in prison. Fac. played such harsh pranks that membership in it alone was technically grounds for disciplinary action. Presidents of Harvard College repeatedly asserted that anyone found to be a member of Med. Fac. would be expelled. As a result, the meetings were held in secret in an underground room on Mass...
Taking the harsh edge off the machinations of the meritocracy...
South Africans still tread warily around the aging "crocodile," which is why when P.W. Botha appeared in court today, the authorities didn't know what to do with him. Former president Botha -- known as "the big crocodile" because of his harsh methods -- appeared on contempt charges arising from his refusal to testify before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission investigating apartheid-era crimes. Even though the 82-year-old patriarch remains unapologetic about apartheid, authorities are likely to cut Botha a deal involving some form of private testimony, says TIME Johannesburg bureau chief Peter Hawthorne: "He's too old and infirm...
...these changes, these moves toward a new flexibility, somehow Mao's legacy? Despite the agony he caused, Mao was both a visionary and a realist. He learned as a youth not only how Shang Yang brought harsh laws to the Chinese people, even when they saw no need for them, but also how Shang Yang's rigors helped lay the foundation in 221 B.C. of the fearsome centralizing state of Qin. Mao knew too that the Qin rulers had been both hated and feared and that their dynasty was soon toppled, despite its monopoly of force and efficient...