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...Then the visitor asked Samer what he would like to be when he grew up. Samer said that he would like "to marry." The soldiers roared. The boy, not realizing that he had said something funny, froze in bewilderment. In answer to another question, Samer said that he would like to live in a world without soldiers. He said so there, standing where the Swedish modern desk was, where the straw shifts back and forth now. After the boy left the room his father swore. "If I am killed, my son will carry...
...Arabians, he was a beloved figure, more at home sipping tea with Bedouins in the desert than discussing policy in the corridors of power. Diplomats were often surprised, one visitor recalled, when he would engage them in talk about "the stars, hunting and spring rains, topics that made his eyes brighten." He was a reluctant monarch who ascended the throne to preserve family unity, and he eagerly delegated authority to younger and more sophisticated members of the royal family. When he died last week at the age of 69, Khalid ibn Abdul Aziz ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia since...
...business is Walt Kelly 64, who opened the shop four years ago when he tired of professional banking. He declines to discuss finances but acknowledges that the business keeps him alive. And well it should for many of the items are well beyond the financial means of the curious visitor. Autographs sell for $10.00 and up Yearbooks follow a similar price range...
...woman Jake had seen in the museum 20 years ago, is dead. Magda now works for British intelligence, and she has startling news. Giles wants to redefect, but he will do so only if his nephew helps him cross from East to West Berlin. Jake realizes that his visitor and he are still children, possessed by the "ghosts of his father and her mother." Somehow they are both fated to complete "our parents' business...
...students didn't fit any of the stereotypes-soul-tortured. Thomas Wolfe, trying to read every book in Widener, comes to mind. But in general gentility ruled. Describing the "soul" of Harvard. Robert Stuart Fitzgerald '33 remembers a stay in Stillman Infirmary during his undergraduate years. One afternoon, a visitor called, "a slightly portly gentlemen with walrus mustaches in chesterfield and homburg, with a small black Scotty on a leash. He inquired into our condition and passed the time of day. It was Abbott Lawrence Lowell, president of the University, out for his constitutional and visiting the sick Visiting...