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...Unlike a film though, we get to read Mark and Ingrid's thoughts. This crucial insight clues us into each character's secret motivations. Ingrid, for example, recalls cheating on Mark with his roommate, unbeknownst to him. So she uses her guilt to rationalize the clearly bad move of meeting him. Even Mark's manipulative scheme gradually begins to seem more like a pitifully misguided attempt at reconnecting with someone he cared about. The whole thing blows up, of course, at the climactic get-together where Mark gets progressively more drunk, his horny friend gets less cautious and Ingrid allows...
...crawl, packing, as provisions, a bottle of rum. It had been on our list of things to do before we graduated. We climbed spiral staircases; we poked into the back of stacks, tipping books from the shelves at random in the hope of opening doors to secret passages. We pretended to shut each other in the vault in the basement of the Kirkland library. We passed the rum in the second-floor stacks of the Eliot library. By the time we returned to Winthrop, tired and damp from the driving rain, I was both glad to have gone...
...There’s a perception that the Faculty Council meetings are secret, but in fact that’s not true,” Feldman said. “The only restriction is that Faculty Council members are asked to not attribute specific quotes to other Faculty Council members...
Warner, who has the aquiline look and formal bearing that sometimes seem right out of Henry Clay's era, has made no secret of his discomfort over the fact that he would even have to cast a vote on the filibuster. "I've been here 27 years," he said. "I have the greatest respect for this institution and how it's served this country all these years." Democratic leader Harry Reid said he had heard private misgivings about the wisdom of changing Senate tradition even from Republicans who publicly pledged to support Frist on the vote...
...Johannes Leitz of the Josef Leitz Winery is one of the superstars of Germany's Rheingau wine region. Based in R?desheim, a charming town of 10,000, Leitz is known for his complex, naturally made wines. According to him, the secret of German Riesling is the soil's quartz and slate. Over time, the minerals give the wines their distinctive flavors of rosewater, litchi and apricot. Heinrich Breuer of Georg Breuer Winery also makes outstanding wines the natural way. He eschews temperature control because this technique promotes fruitier wines: "It's as if your children were brought up with...