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...people don't always live up or down to the clich?s they are expected to inhabit. Ted's mother Henrietta ("Nettie"), for example, was indeed a mountain ... of maternal devotion. She read books and poetry to the boy, and Ted later proclaimed her as the greatest influence on his writing. His dad, Theodore Robert Geisel, may have been a beermaker, but he had a precision of mind and expression, as evidenced in a letter he sent Ted after the young man, a senior at Dartmouth, had got in trouble with the police after a loud drinking party. "While...
...cold, it would freeze the nuts off a Jeep," thinking enviously of the folks who have it easy back in the States - except that his girl friend has joined the WACs, grandpa is shooting rivets onto a battleship and mom is farming harder than Renee Zellweger in "Cold Mountain." And a couple of SNAFUs, including "Private SNAFU vs. Malaria Mike" (Jones, March 44), revived Geisel's Flit villain, the mosquito, to advise soldiers in the South Pacific to keep their beds netted and pants up. (SNAFU's pulchritudinous ass is a frequent target for enemy dive bombers...
...Upland Nepalis are avid home brewers, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the shadow of Kanchenjunga, the world's third highest mountain. Any self-respecting village north of Dharan brews tongba, and the thirsty are welcome here. "One time I had tongba: after only two I tried to get up and walk and I couldn't," warns security guard K.C. Prakash Kumar. "It's very strong...
Brine said that competition from malls and the Internet had hurt his business at the Square. But he said that the opening of Eastern Mountain Sports (EMS) across the street 15 months ago had not cut into his business...
...think they could get away with such behavior? Perhaps because most players assigned to entertain recruits are given few good-conduct rules beyond not to embarrass themselves or the school. Strippers and sex are apparently not something to be embarrassed about. The owner of Hardbodies Entertainment told the Rocky Mountain News it has sent strippers on request to Colorado recruiting parties...