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Unlike Roiphe and Wurtzel, Stone has taken a long, healthy break from Harvard since she graduated from Adams House in 1985. She steered clear of both the sheltered world of academia and of the Manhattan rat-race, sucking up to few trends and pandering to no one. She had no real tunnel vision of her career; she only knew that when she graduated from Harvard she wanted to live in Latin America and/or be involved with filmmaking. Neither of those followed directly from her academic work at Harvard: she concentrated in social studies and wrote her thesis on working women...
...Carter went absent without leave, rode a motorcycle to Durban and, calling himself David, became a disk jockey. He longed to see his family but felt too ashamed to return. One day after he lost his job, he swallowed scores of sleeping pills, pain-killers and rat poison. He survived. He returned to the S.A.D.F. to finish his service and was injured in 1983 while on guard duty at air force headquarters in Pretoria. A bomb attributed to the A.N.C. had exploded, killing 19 people. After leaving the service, Carter got a job at a camera supply shop and drifted...
...Cruelty" charges dropped against rat-killing N.J. homeowner...
...packed Hillside, New Jersey, courtroom last night, a judge dropped animal-cruelty charges against Frank Balun, the 69-year-old gardener who became a cause celebre after he whacked a rat to death with a broom for eating his tomato plants. Ironically, Balun got noticed -- and risked a year in jail and $2,500 in fines -- after he called the Associated Humane Societies to get the carcass. The AHS promptly filed charges against him. The judge found a loophole in state law that allows slaughter if vermin damage crops or livestock. But it took a plea-in-verse from local...
Elsewhere, savvy investors might have smelled a rat earlier. But this was postcommunist Russia, where capitalism is wild, woolly and new. The come-on, in any event, had been slick and seductive: pervasive TV commercials that wafted visions of apartments in Paris and vacations in California, and preposterous returns of 2,000% annually with no minimum investment. With those tactics, it did not take long for 5 million Russians to pour money into the offices of the MMM investment firm, the country's biggest and best-known stock fund...