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...science for decades. The answer, it turns out, may be in their genes, according to a report in the current issue of Nature. Turner's girls--and boys of all sorts--may get their social ineptitude from, astonishingly, their mother. Even more surprising is the implication that normal girls inherit their poise--and perhaps even their famous intuition--from their father...
...Mayer, Berry's successor, will inherit an organization that has greatly evolved over the years. However, its mission has changed little...
Finally, it is my painful duty to report the death of NELSON FENWICK, who passed away over Christmas from complications arising from being backed over by new wife Tabitha ('92). Tabitha is reportedly doing fine, and rarin' to inherit Nelson's estimated $400 million software fortune. Notes of condolence should be sent to the family's Southampton estate...
...course, been planning all her life. Born the eldest daughter of Lord Digby, a baron, in 1920, she would never inherit the 2,500-acre family estate that went eventually to her only brother. But Pamela Digby was bored in the Dorset countryside. She craved more excitement and found it by marrying Randolph Churchill, whom she had met on a blind date just weeks after the 1939 outbreak of World War II. The only son of Britain's wartime Prime Minister, Randolph was a womanizer, and the marriage was tempestuous. When he left to battle Germans, Pamela began a series...
...given the chance, would happily put someone else in charge. That person would probably be Alexander Lebed, the former general whose successful peace negotiations in Chechnya last year have made him the most popular--and electable--figure in the country. If Lebed ascended to the presidency, he would inherit one of the most authoritarian constitutions of any state in the world that aspires to democracy. This is deeply worrisome, and not just to Yeltsin's advisers, because Russia would then be at the mercy of Lebed's brutal reflexes and his untested political instincts...