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...Jason R. Penzer...
News Editor for this issue: Brooke A. Masters '89 Night Editors: Martha A. Bridegam '89 Mark M. Colodny '89 Susan B. Glasser '90 Brooke A. Masters '89 Books Editor: David J. Barron '89 Sports Editors: Mark T. Brazaitis '89 Michael D. Stankiewicz '90-'91 Business Editor: Jason Penzer '90 Copy Editor: Charles A. Cheever...
...Goss '87 David S. Hilzenrath '87 Peter J. Howe '86 Joseph F Kahn '87 Marie B. Morris '85 Teresa A. Mullin '90 Heather R. McLeod '90 Photo Night Editor: Henry J. Adler '86 Feature Night Editor: Emily M. Bernstein '90 Sports Editor: Colin F. Boyle '90 Business Editors: Jason Penzer '90 Alyssa Wolpin '90 Dummy Participants: Robert F. Cunha Jr. '87 Matthew A. Saal '87 Thomas J. Winslow...
Since 1909, when the Young Turks drove out Abd ul-Hamid II, there has been no harem in Turkey. Constantinople's Seraglio is now being converted into one of Istanbul's museums. British Investigator Penzer, Master of Arts, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, snooped all through it time & again, took photographs where he was allowed, drew plans, read everything relevant he could lay hands on, calls his report the fullest to date. Much of that report was of interest only to historians and architects, but some of it makes eye-opening reading to vicarious snoopers and plain...
...This violence was deprecated, and thereafter the heirs-potential were merely locked up for life. Some of these prisoners succeeded to the throne after a lifetime, "when they had all but lost the power of speech, and their minds and bodies were like vegetables." But now, says Penzer, the days of the harem are over. (Only one extant: in Mecca.) When Abd ul-Hamid's big family was broken up, most of his wives went back to the land. And since there is no more harem, there are no more eunuchs. While he was in Turkey, Penzer looked high...