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...want to kick-start our own narrative engines, why not pair each of us up with an alums with similar professional interests? Certainly there are enough alums to go around. And they all inhabit magical little worlds of their own—ones that might even persuade Harry, Boo, Matilda and the Narnia kids to grow...
...with their products. But what about the drivers? Both tread separation and rollover are more likely at high speeds. Remembering all the SUVs that have sailed past me as I drove the speed limit, I wonder how many of those tragic crashes occurred at illegal speeds. ROBERT EBERHART Port Matilda...
...partnership after a decade in which they won everything - all four Slams, Wimbledon six times. Prime Minister John Howard came out for the match, and saw the Woodies win the first set 7-5. Between sets the tennis crowd did a lousy wave but the loveliest version of "Waltzing Matilda" I heard all week...
...strapping redhead won his first battle at age 13. At 20 he defeated the usurpers. He fought successfully for and against the French King. He made a dynastic marriage, over papal objections, to the daughter of the powerful Count of Flanders. (William was 5 ft. 10 in. tall, his Matilda barely 4 ft. They had at least nine children.) By 1065 he was absolute lord of a consolidated Normandy. Then he looked northward...
...York, where folks expect you to be happy when they stuff a blintz in your mouth, is no place for someone like this. Last week she started out at a party for Matilda Cuomo's new book, The Person Who Changed My Life: Prominent Americans Recall Their Mentors, at Le Cirque 2000, where she posed for pictures in a small room with Tony Bennett, shoe mogul Kenneth Cole and arts maven Kitty Carlisle Hart, among other luminaries. She then emerged to make a few standard-issue remarks and then--poof!--disappeared, even though she had a crowd of People...