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...sit-down tea, your best bet is the Four Seasons Hotel (200 Boylston Street, Boston). Its Bristol Lounge is open everyday from 3 to 4:30 p.m. for a full tea, a light tea or just tea and scones...
...Hawking's new book, Black Holes and Baby Universes (Bantam; $21.95), is en route to stores and getting nearly as big a buildup as the latest John Grisham thriller. Why, when his days are already overcrowded with scientific meetings, lecture tours and the occasional sit-down with disabled kids, did he take the time to write a new book? "I had to pay for my nurses," Hawking says (or, rather, since he can't speak, his computer-driven voice synthesizer intones, in a voice something like Lawrence Welk...
...handful of viewers already know Costas as the best sit-down interviewer on television -- as host of Later with Bob Costas, the one network "talk" show where conversation takes place on a regular basis. Tucked away in the time slot behind David Letterman from Monday to Thursday, the half-hour show is a literate oasis among the infomercial emetics of late-night TV. Three million insomniacs regularly catch Costas with many celebrities who Don't Do TV -- talking acting with Robert Duvall, say, or camera angles with Lawrence Kasdan. Costas can also be a gentle nudge, drawing a controlled performer...
...always wondered whether she was aremarkably astute politician who recognized thatHarvard couldn't be hurried toward fullco-education--or whether she was just willing tosettle for crumbs. "Gracious living" wasRadcliffe's hallmark until sit-down dinners anddemitasse disappeared our senior year. Complainingtoo loudly about the Cliffe's second-rate housingand athletic facilities, about our exclusion fromthe Pudding, the Signet Society and (until 1966)Lamont, wouldn't have been gracious...
...rumors of an imminent coup. In Kuwait the disenchanted sent a polite letter up the chain of command, asking for an audience with the Prime Minister. Seven weeks later, they have still received no response, so most stay home passively and grow beards -- an officer corps on a genteel sit-down strike. "A coup, a civil war?" laughs an air-force officer whose Hawk missile antiaircraft battery shot down four Iraqi jet fighters on the day of the invasion. "We're all too comfortable economically to even think of revolution. Maybe if we had a hint at what might follow...