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Celebrants ate a lunch of Tuscan wraps beneatha tent decorated with festive Radcliffe balloonsand banners while listening to performances by theRadcliffe Choral Society, the Kuumba Sisters, the'Cliffe Notes and the Radcliffe Pitches...
...writer Caroline Alexander makes clear in her forceful and well-researched narrative The Endurance (Knopf; 212 pages; $29.95), adventuring was even then a thoroughly commercial proposition. Scott's last journal, completed as he lay in a tent dying of cold and hunger, caught the world's imagination, and a filmed tribute drew crowds. Shackleton, a onetime British merchant-navy officer who had trekked to within 100 miles of the South Pole in 1908, formed a syndicate before his 1914 voyage to capitalize on movie and still photography. Frank Hurley, a self-assured and gifted Australian photographer who knew the Antarctic...
David's family begins to implode. His son, Amnon, falls in love with and then rapes his half-sister Tamar. Disgusted with Tamar, Amnon sends her away from his tent. Tamar's protective brother Absalom then seeks vengeance by murdering Amnon. David's legacy suffers. He loses the opportunity to build the Temple, a privilege he had long coveted...
...manner of the King--and a politician. "These days he can glad-hand like the best of them," says the diplomat. But, says a palace official, "the King relates to the people instinctively, while Hassan tries to understand them always through his mind. When Hussein goes into a Bedouin tent, he enters as if he's a member of the family. Hassan goes in as a very polite guest...
...Meanwhile, the compartmentalization president did his best to pitch his tattered tent on high ground. "We cannot lose sight of our primary mission, which is to work for the American people," Clinton said in his weekly radio address, solemnly announcing the release of new grants in the war on drugs. A new CNN/Gallup poll reports that Clinton's job approval ratings remain at 60 percent. But as TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty points out, Clinton malcontents -- notably disaffected Democrats -- could quickly turn that very separation between Clinton's peccadilloes and his policies into an argument for his resignation. "They...