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...They moved to a tiny white clapboard house in Waltham, Massachusetts, where they promptly became red-white-and-blue American suburbanites. Yuri got a job as a computer programmer; Tanya taught English and lectured on Russian life; and Vera, an accomplished pianist, was accepted with a full scholarship to Milton Academy. On their dining-room wall they hung a framed copy of the Declaration of Independence...
...whim, I grabbed Volume 20 from 1973. After rolling through January, I came to the February issue, where, to my surprise, I found an interview with Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman...
Douglas also won points for having attended Milton Academy, which one Porc member calls in the book a "club school--NB!". With just the turkey shoot done, and two outings and a final dinner left to go, club members were already clamoring to elect Douglas...
Snowden grew up in Milton, Massachusetts, and attended the Thayer Academy...
...that has given the chief of the fallen angels such power to tempt humankind. If humankind was created just a little lower than the angels, what are we to make of an angel who has failed? Is he then not just like us -- yet immortally so? For poets like Milton, Satan was the archetypal antihero, the rebel waging eternal guerrilla warfare against his Creator. "To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n." Indeed, to some, Satan even provides lessons in piety. The Sufis, the mystics of Islam, imagined that...