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UNLIKE most Wellesley girls who spent the semester break skiing at Stowe or visiting boyfriends at Yale or Princeton, my ten-day intercession found me at Northwestern University. Evanston, Illinois, on Chicago's North Shore, is commonly known to Easterners as the oldest and strongest enclave of Black Power and Greek Power...
Founded in 1824 by an M.P. named Richard ("Humanity Dick") Martin and several other animal-rights activists, the society is the oldest of its kind. With more than 4,000 branches in Britain and 19 Commonwealth countries, it maintains a powerful lobby in Parliament. Unlike mere bobbies, the R.S.P.C.A.'s 240 smartly uniformed inspectors carry sidearms (for shooting injured animals), though they have no legal status whatever. The society's annual budget of $2,800,000 is the envy of the much smaller N.S.P.C.C. (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children), which combats Britain...
Julian Mitchell's tricky new novel is about two sensitive, well-educated Englishmen who have widely varying difficulties trying to establish diplomatic relations with their demons and angels. For Charles Humphries, the attempt results in apathy and a self-destructive critical reflex. For Charles' oldest and dearest friend, the process produces The Undiscovered Country itself. The narrator of the novel is not only called Julian Mitchell but bears his real-life social, academic and professional credentials as well...
...former number of the CRIMSON, he comes from one of the oldest racing families in America- two of the eight Triple Crown winners- and most recently represented on the turf by Damasens, Horse of the Year in 1967, property of his grandmother, Edith Baneroft...
...imagine a surgeon enjoys cutting someone open, but it's needed. My job's needed, too, and I have to do it," she answered. "It's the world's oldest profession, you know. Three-fourths of my clients are married men," she told me. "Most of them haven't slept with their wives in years, though. Maybe they share the same room, but then they have separate beds. Or else, their wives are just cold, and won't do the things for them that I will. The only reason my men continue to live at home is for their kids...