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Something Wild For the holidays, Piaget diamond, jet-bead and feather watch ($23,030, piaget.com...
Opposite page: Marni silk, rhinestone and peacock feather pochette ($1,146, marni.com...
...Dachau, Lucy went hunting for her son. She scoured hospital records, searching for more than a year before she tracked him down. It was on his 9th birthday, Oct. 6, 1946, that the mother he scarcely recognized arrived, a new Tyrolean outfit in hand, including the hat with the feather. She took him to Rome, where he had his first bath in six years, and ultimately to the New World, where they settled in a Quaker commune outside Philadelphia...
...down in the library named Will, which he didn't pick up on. He left the law school, and [later] we met in the hall, and I said, 'Let's do lunch sometime.' So he called me up and invited me to lunch. The next day, he brought a feather from his parrot, and placed it on my computer. I asked my friend that night, 'Kenny, do you think a guy who plucks a feather from his bird and places it on your computer likes you?' He said, 'I don't know, Elyn, but he likes you better than...
...believe that most legacies here are, if anything, overqualified. Perhaps gullibly, I believe McGrath Lewis when she says that legacy preference is a mere “feather on the scale.” But it’s a feather that looms large in the public imagination. Even The Economist—not known for populist pandering—has charged that under legacy preference policies, “the students in America’s places of higher education are increasingly becoming an oligarchy.” The magazine continues: “This is sad in itself...