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That was the problem: so often, the natives didn't know who these people really were, or treat them with the deference they felt they had earned. In one of the excellent catalog essays for "Exiles and Emigres," the writer Lawrence Weschler compares their idea of themselves to "Roman nobility in the rustic provinces...as stubbornly patronizing and aloof as the locals were sometimes naive and gauche." The dachshund story sums them up--as it does the situation of most exiles in America in the late 1930s and '40s. Two dachshunds meet on the palisade in Santa Monica, California...
BORN: June 20, 1956, Erie EDUCATION: U of Pennsylvania, B.A., 1979 FAMILY: Wife, Christiane Weschler RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: State legislative aide POLITICAL CAREER: Erie County controller, 1986-89; U.S. House, 1994- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1940, Erie...
...study last spring of 140 campuses throughout the nation reported that nearly half of college students binge drink. Henry Weschler, lecturer on social psychology at the School of Public Health, who conducted the study, found that 44 percent of college students bing drink, or consume five drinks on a single occasion at least once every two weeks. Harvard students are no exception...
...sample the wild life. He rode with the notorious bikers' club and lifted weights competitively. A 600-lb. hoist won him a state championship. Today he keeps in shape by swimming two hours a day. "It's like watching a porpoise," says his friend, New Yorker writer Lawrence Weschler. "He's incredibly powerful, incredibly graceful and incessant...
...Bingeing is the benchmark after which drinking lapses into a drinking lifestyle--drinking to get drunk and dangerous activity," Weschler said...