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LEAH RABIN Widow of slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin...
Funded in large part by a $7 million donation from Katherine Bogdonovich Loker, the widow of Donald P. Loker '25, Loker Commons officially opened in January, after eight years of planning...
That pretty much narrows it down, in terms of Grisham's latest set of villains. The new novel's plot involves a high-stakes civil suit against Big Tobacco, brought by the forces of what might be called Big Health, in the name of a widow whose poor slob of a husband smoked himself to death. The tobacco cartel has won every such suit up to this one, but now the odds are beginning to tip. This is why the novel's companies have set up an eight-figure war chest with a private cia of thugs and slinkers...
...terrible night in 1968 Douglass Adair, then a teacher at the Claremont colleges, walked into their bedroom and killed himself. His widow's agony and incomprehension, in poems reflecting lost love, all but leap from page to reader's eye. "One Ordinary Evening" revisits a moment of marital intimacy: entwined on a sofa, they listen to Wagner on the phonograph. Then...
...less gnomic than Stevens," says TIME's John Elson, "more passionately personal; even on dark themes, her writing, like his, has the elegant fizz of brut champagne." One terrible night in 1968 Douglass Adair, then a teacher at the Claremont colleges, walked into their bedroom and killed himself. His widow's agony and incomprehension, in poems reflecting lost love, all but leap from page to reader...