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...place or another since 1755. There was one where Washington Square is today; there was one where the New York Public Library now stands. Since 1869 the cemetery for the indigent has been on Hart Island, 101 acres of goldenrod, Queen Anne's lace, sumac, broom sedge, oak and willow. At one time the island was also home to a prison. In another time there was a drug rehabilitation center here. Neither is in operation any more, and the red brick buildings now resemble what one imagines would be left after the bomb. Creepers embellish low walls fashioned from...
...arrived from five stubborn countries, the largest assault force in 132 years, and are fighting it out among themselves for the right to challenge for the America's Cup, a symbol of U.S. ingenuity, or treachery, or both, that is bolted snugly, smugly, or both, to a heavy oak slab in the West 44th Street rumpus room of the New York Yacht Club...
Lately, however, there have been signs that the market may be approaching saturation. Consumers are beginning to complain that without expensive printers and disc drives, many of the low-priced machines are little more than video-game players with built-in keyboards. Talmis Inc., an Oak Park, Ill., market research firm, estimates that small computers have been selling at a monthly rate of 275,000, but manufacturers have been shipping more than 450,000 a month...
Woodie's mother, Ruth Hale, was an early feminist and first president of the Lucy Stone League, a group of married women who retained their own names. Friends called the couple "the clinging oak and the sturdy vine." The Brouns believed in absolute equality of the sexes and ages; what better place to demonstrate their faith than in the home? Accordingly, the boy who ached to be special was instructed to call his parents by their first names, just like everyone else. When he was seven, Ruth gave him lessons in deportment: "May I remind you of the words...
...fellows, junior and senior, meet every Monday night to dine and share fine wine in their oak-paneled rooms in Harvard's Eliot House. Says Nalebuff: "I think there's less pretense here than any place I've been. Nobody's competing with anyone else. You don't have to prove yourself." The exchanges can be irreverent. When M.I.T. Economist and Senior Fellow Robert Solow, 58, advises Theoretical Physicist Paul Ginsparg, 27, that he will soon be "over the hill" for his profession, the junior fellow retorts, "Then I can become an economist...