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...With a wolfish grin, The Stable Boy unbuckled his belt.Then he reached down and ripped open her dress with a single masterful movement. Her nudity gleamed, luminous, against the hay bales. Neither spoke.He lowered himself upon her. It had begun. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *It had finished. The rain drummed steadily on the roof of the stable as Felicity lay there, her body sweaty and sticky and utterly satiated. She pushed her hair back from her face with a languid hand and rolled over toward The Stable Boy. A piece of hay dangled between his lips. He was chewing on it slowly and contentedly.With...
...baby. In her first novel, “No Direction Home,” Silver explored the search for meaning and a sense of “home” in Los Angeles, tracing the lives of children who come from across the country to live under the same roof. But it is in Silver’s troubled yet intruiging new novel, “The God of War,” that she takes the greatest risks, stepping back in time and place to a rural Southern California town in 1978 where military planes and water pollution punctuate...
...than Longwood’s; the Faculty of Arts and Sciences accounts for 37 percent of emissions, more than any other school at Harvard . Compared to Menino’s hard facts, Faust’s evidence that Harvard too seeks sustainability seemed weak. The “Green Roof Demonstration Project,” and Earth Week’s “Sustainability Pledges,” Harvard’s two green successes that she alluded to in her speech (while good-spirited) do not guarantee that Harvard will pollute less. Buildings and signatures, unless backed...
...responsibly, thoroughly and well, might encourage other institutions to take a look at their own history,” Campbell said. Brown showed “other institutions that it’s possible to look at this history, and face it, without having the roof collapse on your head.”Since 2006, Brown has pursued many of the initiatives suggested in the report, such as erecting the first major slave trade memorial in the U.S. and creating a center for the continuing study of slavery and justice. Simmons also exceeded the committee’s recommendations about...
...just make it a standard product," he says. He wants to give them, and his employees, something different, something memorable. So the Australian staff who've flown 19 hours for a press conference get their treat at sundown: Branson in full celebrity mode on the roof of the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel. Reclining like a pasha on an upholstered banquette, he downs champagne and chats up Daryl Hannah and an 18-year-old aspiring actress-environmentalist named Zelda Williams. He seems to enjoy himself but leaves the party early. He's got a plane to catch...