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After a few short minutes of introspection, the Yale mentor slipped quietly out of the building, while Harvard coach Joe Restic was just beginning to feel the pains of notoriety in the winners' locker room...
...thorough as it is, Lewis's biography is often frustrating to read. While dozens of American and European literary notables troop through its pages, relatively few exhibit the vitality of Wharton's own characters. There are important exceptions, of course, like Lewis's portrait of Wharton's friend and mentor Henry James, who felt during her visits that he was "being seized and carried off in the talons of some monstrous female bird of prey." But, in general, Lewis spends too much time chronicling in remorseless detail the comings and goings of the Wharton set, obscuring his very real insights...
...took one step deeper into trouble last week. As U.S. Attorney Dwayne Keyes began his opening statement to the jury of six men and six women in Sacramento, Fromme, who had decided to act as her own counsel, suddenly stood up and demanded the right to bring her mentor, convicted Murderer Charles Manson, into court as a witness. "Manson and our family are my own heartbeat," said she. "I can't go to trial unless they are allowed to speak. Lives will be lost. It's gonna get bloody." District Court Judge Thomas MacBride ejected Fromme from...
...think it was a combination of these reasons," he said. The Crimson mentor added that he has no reason to believe that the decision of all three to quit was anything but coincidental...
...shaky start," the Quaker mentor said yesterday, "and although I'm pleased with our last two wins, there's always the possibility that we'll revert back to our earlier forms...