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...He’s very genial, everybody likes him,” said Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, who was Verba’s Leverett House entryway mate during their College years. “He’s a jokester, that’s another reason why everybody likes...
Though Patrick won the primary easily, his campaign was considered a long-shot for much of the past 18 months. Reilly, a popular two-term attorney general, began as the frontrunner but stumbled early, bungling the choosing of a running mate on Jan. 30. It was soon discovered that his designee had financial problems, including $12,000 in unpaid taxes...
...that it introduces freshmen to others of the same ilk. Nerds can plot their revenge in “Calculating Pi” while kleptos can swap prison stories in “The Idea of Crime.” Who knows? You may even find your first-mate in “The Golden Age of Piracy...
...that Tony Blair has confirmed that he'll leave Downing Street within a year, who will the Bush Administration seek out as best mate? Put your money on Gordon Brown, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, or finance chief, as the next Prime Minister. London bookmaker William Hill gives him overwhelming odds--1 to 5. Brown is brainy, experienced, and has been heir apparent since opting not to fight Blair for the Labour Party leadership in 1994. But a contest among Labour heavyweights is still possible. Scars remain from the long, venomous feud between Brown's backers and Blair...
...that brought Wallace and spiders together. In 1943, as an infantryman in New Guinea, he was reconnoitring in the jungle when he ran smack into a web and felt "this huge spider" scuttle onto him. A mate brushed it from his hair, but Wallace couldn't get the spider, a golden orb weaver, out of his head. "It was the size of it," he says. "And its silk was so strong...