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...difference I think.”Valentine’s first encouragement at Radcliffe came in 1952 when she met Dean of Instruction Wilma A. Kirby-Miller.Valentine says the dean told her not to worry about choosing a concentration and instead to “just take courses at your whim because that’s what poets do.”At Kirby-Miller’s advice, Valentine took classes in several disciplines. “I dabbled in this and I dabbled in that,” Valentine says, concluding that she only enjoyed her small writing...
...What, precisely, is the Queen's job? There is not much she can do entirely at her own whim. Technically, she could dissolve Parliament to get rid of a Prime Minister she disliked, but it would provoke an unthinkable constitutional crisis if she tried. The great 19th-century journalist and constitutional scholar Walter Bagehot said the monarch had the prerogative "to be consulted, to encourage and to warn" the government of the day, but it is one Elizabeth II never exercises in public (unlike her opinionated son Charles). Yet she still derives power from her twin roles as head...
...Among the 430-odd foreigners kidnapped in Iraq so far in this conflict, only a few have been similarly rescued. By and large, the hostages are freed, for whatever reason, at the whim of their captors, or, else murdered once their presence becomes too problematic or unprofitable. The taking of these harmless humanitarians served, if nothing else, to remind that there?s only so far good intentions will take you in Iraq. That they bore no ill will, were staunchly non-violent, sympathetic to the Iraqis? plight, earnestly assimilating, and even anti-American in a barely veiled way, meant nothing...
...According to Eirich, Averell decided to audition for “The Amazing Race” on a whim, sending in videotapes of himself and MacNiven doing odd tasks and talking about themselves. Last July, he got an interview with the producers, and by the fall, he was off to Denver to begin the race...
...thinking “Man, I would like to know the stories behind some of those”? Well, I can tell you…no, you really don’t. Most of them don’t make any sense. People will decide completely on a whim to call me something—it’s just feels appropriate. “Tooth” has absolutely nothing to do with my teeth, or with anything else for that matter, though being my sport’s nickname from high school—and the sport?...