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Honoring the Roman god of fertility, Lupercalia celebrated the wolf who suckled Romulus and Remus, providing the luckier brother with the martial vigor to found a great city on the body of the unluckier brother. The holiday celebrated not only unrestrained sexuality but the martial spirit of Romulus' descendants in wild days of drinking, games and orgies. Greeting cards were not required...
...party secretary Jiang Zemin, ready to step into the shoes of the nonagenarians who joined Mao on the Long March and have have ruled the country since 1949. Jiang is the third would-be Deng successor in nearly 15 years, and most Chinese wonder whether he will be any luckier than Mao's chosen heir, Hua Guofeng...
...course they might have been a good deal luckier if a certain Dylan never moved into their dorm...
...announced while still a senior at Collegiate. During the 1970s and early '80s, he produced movies (The Blockhouse, The Border) and plays (Ladies of the Alamo). Some shows featured such stars as Peter Sellers and Jack Nicholson, but none achieved much critical or financial success. Bronfman was a bit luckier in a fling at songwriting. Dionne Warwick recorded a love song he wrote, Whisper in the Dark. Efer "eloped" (his word) with Sherry Brewer, a black model-actress and close friend of Warwick. They had three children before divorcing in 1991; early this year, Bronfman took a second wife...
Born in the central Russian town of Engels, Schnittke, half Jewish and half German, had the misfortune to belong to two of the old Soviet Union's least favorite ethnic groups. But he was luckier than most; his father, a journalist of Russian-Jewish extraction who was born in Germany, was posted to Vienna in the mid-1940s. The family moved to Moscow in 1948, where the bilingual Alfred began his studies at the Moscow Conservatory...