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...when she announced last week that she was pretty much closing up the clubhouse, publishing houses shuddered. So did anybody who thought it was a good thing that she had made Joyce Carol Oates seem as big as "The Rock." Jane Friedman, CEO of HarperCollins, got a stricken e-mail. "One of my colleagues had written to me one word: WEEP...
...early 1860s, Bostonians were painting the town magenta and the city was stricken with a shortage of all things crimson. “Owing to the prevalence of the fashion for magenta between the years 1860 and 1864 and the inability of the members of the various athletic teams to procure crimson for their insignia, magenta was, of necessity, accepted as a poor substitute,” wrote John Blanchard, Class of 1891, in The H Book of Harvard Athletics. Frederic C. Crowninshield, Class of 1866, who was a cousin of the rower who bought the original kerchiefs with Eliot...
...small boy is walking with his grandmother on a deserted stretch of beach. Suddenly an enormous wave rises up, crashes onto the beach and carries the little boy away. The grandmother is stricken with grief and then with anger. She turns her face skyward and reproaches, “God, how could you allow such a thing to happen? My grandson had his whole life before him. If you bring him back I promise that I’ll never ask for anything else as long as I live.” The sky darkens and another huge wave crashes...
...personage of all time. Britons were inclined to believe that her resplendent smile would never fade. Despite failing health, she managed to greet thousands of well-wishers outside her home on her 101st birthday celebration last August with a raised glass of champagne. Only seven weeks ago, although grief stricken and looking frail, she insisted on attending the funeral of her 71-year-old daughter, Princess Margaret. Last Saturday afternoon, her job well done, the Queen Mother died in her sleep at Royal Lodge, Windsor, outside London...
...Exchange.” Equal Exchange agrees to buy the fairly traded coffee at $1.26 per pound—$1.41 if it is organically grown. The market price paid by coyotes to farmers fluctuates around 40 cents per pound—the extra dollar goes into the often poverty stricken hands of Latin American, African and Asian coffee farmers...