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This is just one in a now lengthy anthology of “Rudi stories,” which have been told and retold since the very first days of this senior’s freshman year. First, there was Patitucci’s Undergraduate Council campaign, during which he postered half the Yard with a photograph of himself in a Speedo. Later that spring, Patitucci became an icon on the intramural circuit after breaking his arm in the climax of a softball game and then passionately pumping his fist in a symbolic act of determination. And Patitucci quickly became...
Five years ago I was lecturing in Staunton, Va., and retold the story. In the question session, a man in the audience rose and said, "You may not believe that story about the bomb in the attic, but I do. I worked for 25 years at the Defense Intelligence Agency, and that was our understanding." And now I can hear Kennedy asking again, "Do you know something...
...Phnom Penh had more than 30 theaters, mostly showing local movies. Sihanouk himself, now the country's King, was an enthusiastic producer, director, scriptwriter, star and music composer. One of the era's classics was 1960's Puos Keng Kang (The Snake King) by director Tea Lim Kun, which retold a Cambodian legend of a peasant woman seduced by the king of the snakes...
...HEART OF THE SEA The 1820 sinking of the Nantucket whaler Essex, the event that inspired Moby Dick, is thrillingly retold by Nathaniel Philbrick...
...5.IN THE HEART OF THE SEA: The 1820 sinking of the Nantucket whaler Essex, the event that inspired "Moby-Dick," is thrillingly retold by Nathaniel Philbrick...