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...than most people perceive. On Mother's Day, he sent boxes of candy to the White House telephone operators. It used to drive us to distraction the way he would constantly be meeting with people who had no relation to the business at hand. Like, maybe, a Boy Scout troop-he'd be over in the White House theater telling them about the place...
...abstract and opaque. Yet at times it is brutally beautiful, lavishly choreographed - a pagan ritual in evening dress. The script, which has some vague relation to Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, concerns the exploits of a university student named Jonathan who is dis patched by his professor to scout a prospective raid on a vampire fortress...
Luxury campsites! The very phrase is a non sequitur. As any Boy Scout knows, a campsite is a clearing in the woods where the greatest luxury is a running brook. The basic urge of the true camper is to escape from chlorine, color TV and asphalt. The climb up Mount Horrid is an excellent baptism. In six-tenths of a mile, the trail rises sharply 600 ft. We were out of breath halfway up, and I thought my heart was about to pound out of my chest. At 2,800 ft., the trail levels off on a rocky perch called...
...summers ago I went home for a weekend. To visit a friend who was a counselor at a girl scout camp in the area. I went, with Kevin, to Squire's. And we got picked up. By two girls who believed we were correspondents for Melody Maker. I faked my best Cockney for the occasion. She believed us, nearly. But it was better once she found out we were from Harvard. All she really wanted was to score some cocaine. (At the time, I wouldn't have known cocaine from table salt. But I was bold...
Considered to be the most exciting player in college basketball this year, Thompson has been ranked by one scout as one of America's ten best basketball players--pro or college--even though he is a sophomore...