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...system that needs change? In 1988, Mitchell Orenstein wrote in an opinion piece for The Crimson that “Assistant Dean of Harvard College John Marquand attends finals club parties routinely and Dean L. Fred Jewett ‘57, is a member of the exclusive all-male Somerset Club in Boston...
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...Americans traversing Europe in July wore Bermuda shorts. ANNETTE BENING smoldered through the continent's record heat wave in a fur stole and long gloves. She was in Budapest and London to film Being Julia, an adaptation of a W. Somerset Maugham novel. The American Beauty star says she plays "a theater actress in London in 1938 who falls apart and finds herself" while cheating on her husband, played by Jeremy Irons. Bening says she was concentrating too hard to mind "a few hot moments." Perhaps when you're married to Warren Beatty, you're always cool...
...nightmare, escaping only at the last minute. A year ago, in the midst of a bad case of level-orange jitters about national security, Americans got a bit of good news. After three days of suspense, nine miners who had crouched 240 ft. beneath a dairy farm in Somerset County, Pa., gasping as the last of their air leached away, were delivered from their flooded mine. The first figure millions of TV viewers saw emerge from the land of the dead, cradled in a yellow rescue capsule, was the crew foreman, Randy Fogle, 45, sent up before the others because...
ABOVE BOARD In the slowpoke, Somerset Maugham-era before long-haul flights became commonplace, travel in what was then known as the Far East was only possible by commercial ships. Today there are about half a dozen freight lines operating in Asia that accept paying passengers, which charge $70-$130 per day per person. Voyages range in duration from a 10-day short hop to an epic 114 days (the latter being Houston to Houston on the Egon Oldendorff line, via the Suez Canal, with Jakarta the easternmost port). All the lines have age limits for passengers, ranging from...