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Though no official announcement has been made about when William and Harry will return to school, both Ludgrove and Eton are expected to offer a return to comforting routine. William will enter his third year in Manor House, the ivied building where he has lived with 49 other boys. Andrew Gailey, the warm and erudite housemaster, as well as Christopher Stuart-Clark, his tutor, and Elizabeth Heathcote, Manor House's matron, will lend support to William, as they did during his parents' divorce. "William is comfortable there and popular with the boys," says Hurd. "It's a very flexible place...
...safe haven of government and "go into business for yourself." Connerly already had. While still working for the state, he managed to build up a large portfolio of single-family homes, which he rented out. He and a partner bought and renovated a boarded-up apartment complex called Strawberry Manor and leased it to the Sacramento city housing authority. (A 1972 state investigation cleared him of conflict-of-interest charges.) After Wilson left Sacramento to run for mayor of San Diego, Connerly spent two years as a deputy director of the state department of housing. He then quit government...
Deans of the various Harvard faculties might be compared to lords of the manor in English fiefdom...
...herself, as well as her papers in the Library of Congress, ?Rage for Fame: The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce? by Sylvia Jukes Morris (Random House; 562 pages; $30) is the first part of what will almost certainly be the definitive biography of Luce. Despite her lady-of-the-manor ways, Luce?s beginnings were anything but grand. She was born in Manhattan in 1903, the illegitimate daughter of William Franklin Boothe, an itinerant salesman and would-be concert violinist. Clare and her older brother David were raised by their mother Anna, who, Morris tells us, supported them by part...
...stop these things," says bioethicist Daniel Callahan of the Hastings Center in Briarcliff Manor, New York. "We are at the mercy of these technological developments. Once they're here, it's hard to turn back...