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...away, teaching at Bath, is his old friend from prep school and Oxford, Larry Pettifer, who has also been cashiered from intelligence and given a professorial post where, his former masters hope, he will stay out of trouble. Tim was one of those masters; he recruited Larry into spying and "ran" him, in the parlance of the trade, for some 20 years, while a succession of KGB chiefs in London were fooled into believing that Larry was actually working for them. Despite his skill as a double agent, Tim's protaga retains a belief in his own innocence, a Byronic...
...narrator and hero of The Cunning Man is Jonathan Hullah, M.D., who was present at St. Aidan's Church in Toronto when Father Ninian Hobbes collapsed and died. Also on the altar that day was Hullah's old friend from prep-school days, Father Charles Iredale, who shooed the physician away when he approached the stricken celebrant. "We were members of two rival priesthoods," Hullah muses, "he the Man of God and I the Man of Science...
...private arbitration panel ruled last Friday that the well-known test prep company The Princeton Review can no longer make its claim of an average "110-160 point" improvement when advertising its SAT course...
...recent study conducted by Roper Starch Worldwide, a polling organization, Princeton Review's SAT prep students were found to have improved their scores by 127 points, MCAT students by 6.5. These results were not considered by the panel and are currently being contested by Kaplan...
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 4, 1995. The first thing you notice about a Dave Matthews Band concert is the homogeneity of the crowd. White prep school and junior high kids wander around in a Head of the Charles-like social scene. At last Saturday's sold-out show at the Orpheum, the girl behind me asked her friend, "Have you seen anyone yet?" I don't know how she could answer that, considering everyone looked the same in a plaid flannel, fleece jacket and baseball cap combo...