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...families: Bush is a 13th cousin, once removed, of the Queen of England; Kerry descends from John Winthrop, the founder of Massachusetts. Both attended elite Eastern boarding schools like their fathers, moved on to Yale two years apart and as juniors were tapped for its most exclusive secret society, Skull and Bones...
Though they graduated only two years apart--Kerry in 1966, Bush in '68--in between their world turned on its axis. Bush called his the "last short-haired class," but they were rebels compared with Kerry's. Of the 15 Skull and Bones members in the graduating class that included Kerry, four enlisted after graduation; two years later, none did. Speaking of John's decision to join the Navy, Richard Kerry told the Boston Globe in 1996, "I thought [the war] a serious policy mistake. His attitude was gung-ho: he had to show the flag. He was quite immature...
...worse murder rate than our own, and Boris Akunin takes full advantage of it. His fiendishly witty Murder on the Leviathan (Random House; 223 pages) begins with 10 of them: the entire household of one Lord Littleby has been slaughtered by means of mysterious injections, and Littleby's skull has been bashed in. To add insult to injury, his precious golden statue of the Hindu god Shiva has been stolen. Akunin is the pen name of a Russian academic whose mysteries--all starring stuttering, downy-cheeked young detective Erast Fandorin--are wildly popular in his country and are just catching...
Running, however, was something Smarty almost never got a chance to do. During a training session last July, he reared up in the starting gate and struck his head on an overhanging piece of steel. He collapsed with skull fractures and swelling so bad that his left eye protruded from its socket. He regained consciousness in the 45-minute ride to the veterinary center and impressed his handlers by trotting blithely in to see the doctor. By November he was well enough to run--and win--his first race. Seven races later he has yet to lose...
...cheery, like his beach scenes, the sun is shining but it casts deep shadows. Many of his motifs are infused with a sense of solitariness: single people in rooms, lone houses by roads or railroads. House by a Road (1940) has windows like the eyes of a skull, filled in with pure black, and a thick wood huddles around it. The windows in House at Dusk (1935) are shaded or give onto rooms that are lighted but empty - except for one, where a woman looks out. Who is lonelier, the woman or the watcher looking at her? And what gives...