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...salvage such a wanton shrew. Frederick—Frederick must be saved. Oh, Gentle Reader, be sure that if this pure maiden of ours had any blemish upon her soul, any indecency to mar her perfection, it was only a propensity to adore and love too greatly. None whom she revered would be harmed, even if she must sacrifice her greatest treasure in order to keep them safe! Roxanna trembled at the knowledge of how Frederick must be rescued. “I am not worthy!” she whispered to herself, her vestal veins thrumming. But her maidenly...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Stable Boy: Chapter 11 | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...Some say that I’m a pompous creep / Somehow I don’t lose that much sleep / Why bother with false modesty? / Harvard’s the perfect place for me.”Harvard alumni are often inspired by their undergraduate years, but perhaps none thus far have been able to express these experiences as well as “Legally Blonde: The Musical” co-composer and co-lyricist Laurence C. O’Keefe ’91. “At Harvard, I met high-powered, fascinating people who were utter dicks...

Author: By Ali R. Leskowitz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Elle Woods Visits Her Alma Mater | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...Barlow forgets that in such an explicitly culinary journey, cultural stories should spring from the food and not the other way around. For instance, it is only once Barlow arrives at the house of Castro’s cousin that he searches for a connection to food. Finding none, other than a modest meal she serves, he rambles instead about Galician migration to Cuba. Barlow doesn’t even attempt to find a porcine connection in his visit with Don Manuel Fraga Iribarne, an eminent Spanish politician. I understand that Fraga is the most famous Galician alive...

Author: By Rebecca A. Cooper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Everything' Missing Somethin' | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...have seemed blindly hopeful at the time, all of these visionary leaders are now remembered for their contribution to the enduring theme of American history: Government, when it is motivated by the desire to find what will work for the common good, can improve our lives in ways that none of us could accomplish acting alone...

Author: By Eva Z. Lam, Elise X. Liu, and William Weingarten | Title: Restoring the Promise of Good Government | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...Ebbin, a Democrat who is now 44, was happy to oblige. (Full disclosure: in the mid-'90s, Ebbin and I knew each other briefly as colleagues; he sold ads for Washington City Paper, a weekly where I was a reporter.) Using Ebbin's expertise, the gay donors - none of whom live in Virginia - began contributing to certain candidates in the state. There were five benefactors: David Bohnett of Beverly Hills, Calif., who in 1999 sold the company he had co-founded, Geo-Cities, to Yahoo! in a deal worth $5 billion on the day it was announced; Timothy Gill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gay Mafia That's Redefining Liberal Politics | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

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