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...late 1970s, a recently divorced Anne Worthington Prescott ’52 found herself in need of solace...
...Prescott found laughter in the fourteenth-century English poet’s texts—they cheered her up when she says she should have been depressed. Soon Geoffrey Chaucer permeated her life...
...next fall Prescott will publish her first book, Imagining Fame: An Introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer’s House of Fame, an analysis of one of his lesser-known satires. Chaucer wrote the work as he was becoming famous, and Prescott says the work has much to say about contemporary culture’s obsession with celebrity...
Agent Williams wrote the memo on July 5, detailing his suspicions about some Arabs he had been watching, who he thought were Islamic radicals. Several of the men had enrolled at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Ariz. Williams posited that bin Laden's followers might be trying to infiltrate the civil-aviation system as pilots, security guards or other personnel, and he recommended a national program to track suspicious flight-school students. The memo was sent to the counterterrorism division at FBI headquarters in Washington and to two field offices, including the counterterrorism section in New York, which...
...Battle of Lexington. Seasoned spectators stood on ladders and drowsy yet curious small children perched on their fathers’ shoulders to get a good look at the action. Coveted viewing positions were occupied by 4 a.m. At 6 a.m. sharp, a Lexington Minute Man playing messenger Samuel Prescott rode up to the green to deliver the message that the British were, indeed, coming. Soon after, about 120 reenactors portraying British regulars marched up the road and confronted the Minute Men holding the green. The redcoats were booed by the umbrella-toting crowd. Tension rose among the crowd and reenactors...