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With its evenhanded blend of public spectacle and intimate detail, Sarah Bradford's new biography, Elizabeth (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 564 pages; $30), is rumored to have nettled the Queen when published in Britain recently, but it is really the book she deserves. It's all here, the public occasions and ceremonies, the baffling indirections of court diplomacy, the knots and ravels of an intense family life. Elizabeth II, 70 this month, has reigned 44 long years, years spent largely in public. Her lifetime assignment is to be the embodiment of the monarchy, and at that she is impeccable--serene, stately...
...Windsors are pretty much in disarray, even as books about them are becoming more dangerous. The most recent is the Bradford biography of the Queen (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), due out in the U.S. in April but excerpted in the London Times in January. Bradford, the author of several respected books, was considered a trusty by the palace, but once again the royals were wrong. Among her previous subjects is Elizabeth's father, the estimable, dull George VI. From that project she probably got some good sources for the new book. Beating Kitty Kelley, who has been working on a book...
...whole randomized world we had been thrown into so unwillingly, was not bad at all. In Cabot, we found great friends, amazing tutors, masters who have the best open houses on campus-we've done research on this one-and the first quad house to win the Straus Cup. On the way to the championship women's basketball game just last week-which Cabot won-a good friend mentioned that we identified much more with our house than she did (a very popular river house right in the center of the "big four" that will remain unmentioned). Who would...
...gates between Lehman and Straus Halls and across from Holyoke Center will now close at 7:30 p.m. every...
Lowell House and the South Yard, which finished second and third, respectively, were awarded Green Cup mugs. The South Yard includes Matthews, Weld, Straus, Grays, Wigglesworth and Mass. Hall, according to Raezer...