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Keep your head up and chin straight," Diana Mather tells her pupils at the Finishing Academy. They are balancing hefty copies of Castles of Scotland on their noggins. "Eyes ahead. Now walk!" They're polished. They're poised. They'll get there...
...Sound like an old-fashioned finishing school? It is, with one twist: the pupils are all men. Image consultant Mather and recruitment specialist Penny Edge tutor men, who range in age from 19 to 50, in modern manners at Britain's first male finishing school, founded in October 2005. "In these days of equality, what's good for women is good for men," says Mather, co-founder of the successful Finishing Academy for ladies in Cheshire. The gentlemen apparently agree. Mather has bookings for the men's academy through January 2007, and is considering setting up shop in North America...
...attending the three-day course, held monthly at the cozy medieval Lickleyhead Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, it can feel like they are, quite literally, learning to walk all over again. Everyday situations such as eating dinner become a minefield of possible faux pas. But within an hour Mather has them properly scooping their soup ("Away from yourself, so as not to splash the tie") and daintily adding salt on the side, rather than dousing the entire dish ("Do you think you're in a trucker's caf?...
...past several days.“It’s pretty devastating,” she rasped. She said that when she visited UHS, she was told that “lots and lots” of cases had been seen. From the other end of campus, Mather resident Anant A. Thaker ’06, who said he was bedridden with illness for most of last week, told a similar story. “They gave the impression they’ve had quite a few flu cases in the past few weeks,” said Thaker...
Reeves did not hide his interracial relationship with Johnson, who was also his Mather suitemate...