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...much people we see in movies as people we know. They stare at the TV, pretending fascination with a game show as a way of avoiding either a conversation that's sure to turn prickly or a long night of sullen introspection. They offer old doggerel - like Eleanor Roosevelt's "Yesterday is history, tomorrow's a mystery, today's a gift. That's why they call it the present" - as eternal wisdom. The men in Snow Angels have the appetites of the philanderers they see in movies but not the suave patter; a cheating husband in this town is unprepared...
...expand their services, the shelter is trying to arrange an endowment to be managed by the Harvard Management Company, according to one of the shelter’s directors, Eleanor R. Wilking ’09. The shelter currently receives the majority of its funding from the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance...
...Eleanor. Happy 80th birthday...
...looked down at the menu in front of me. It was stamped in big letters: “Happy Birthday, Eleanor. 80 Years Young!” At the bottom was a collage of the dancers (or “gender illusionists” as the restaurant billed them). There were four tonight—a bonus compared to the usual three...
...HELP" rallied a front-page headline in The Journal. Lines of savers rushing to take back their money were shorter than elsewhere in the country. Many chose to open fresh accounts. And some even bought the bank's shares. "I always had faith in them," says 84-year-old Eleanor County, clutching her pink savings book outside a busy branch of Northern Rock on Saturday...