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...weekend to dissuade Carrington, whom Thatcher viewed as a valued ally. He was one of the few members of the Cabinet who could exercise restraint over the headstrong Prime Minister. He once had the self-confidence to tell her, as she got ready for an important meeting with a touchy foreign leader, "Don't say anything for the first 30 minutes." Carrington turned down a face-saving ploy suggested by Whitelaw and Thatcher: the Foreign Secretary would offer his resignation, she would refuse to accept it, and he would then withdraw the proposal. Thus he would have done the honorable...
...Paris Hilton: Get your 17 dogs fixed, and learn how to tell the difference between fixed and not. (Hint: when they keep having babies, they are NOT fixed...
...working title is “Organ Failure” and it is a play about the international black market in organ transplantation. But I want to mix it up with fairy tales about lost and transformed body parts. That’s kind of all I can tell you about that at the moment...
What happened to the days when Lent meant giving up dessert for a month? We’ll tell you what happened: the new millenium. Now, we are bombarded with the necessity of Lent a la Josh Hartnett in “40 Days and 40 Nights.” (You know, the movie where Josh’s bros dubbed him a “player” and he gave up sex to prove them wrong?) Well, FM wouldn’t recommend abstinence to anyone at Harvard (let’s face it: that wouldn?...
...unhappy,” recalls Emma Markley, Harvard freshman and former Princeton student. “Maybe it was the first time going to college, being away from home, but it’s something that a lot of people go through. I can’t tell you why it was, but I knew that I wanted to come home.”Something wasn’t right. Markley first left the basketball team, then withdrew from Princeton altogether. She then spent a long year off—away from the gym and the classroom—thinking...