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Yet, while paying lip service to chastity, the religious right has a voracious appetite for tawdry tales of sexual impropriety. These conservative Christians may spurn gossip about movie stars and trashy afternoon talk shows, but their interest in unsubstantiated rumors about Bill Clinton's alleged affairs is more than a...
"What does this have to do with me?" you may ask. The important take-home message of these courtship tales is that lasting and stable relationships can and do happen, even at Harvard. We only need to look at the love stories of our masters as evidence.
Furry Tales rec.pet.cats is for serious cat lovers. But the occasional mischiefmaker shows up and posts hair-raising descriptions of feline abuse designed to shock the regular denizens.
When he settled for good, it was in Samoa, in a grand plantation house designed for large-scale entertaining. He wrote steadily, made more and more money, and happily or resignedly spent all of it keeping his deadbeat in-laws afloat. He died at 44, in 1894, having written his...
DIED. LI ZHISUI, 75, Mao Zedong's former physician; in Chicago. He was Mao's loyal confidant from 1954 to the Chinese leader's death in '76-an experience Li recounted in his 682-page The Private Life of Chairman Mao. Propelled by Li's attend-and-tell tales of...