Word: boying
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Harvard had changed him. "I learned a lot about myself in law school," he says. "I finally got over the '60s. I discovered that raging inside of me was a competitive, acquisitive little Jewish boy from Chicago." When an offer came to join the U.S. attorney's staff in Chicago, he and Annette jumped at it. "I thought it was the best job imaginable, that it had the power to help shape the community." The return to their native city marked an important rite of passage for the Turows, a sense that the onetime prodigal children had returned and were...
Like Prospero, Stern is a magician who confronts unruly influences in a brave new world. The Midwestern Caliban is played by Hartnell, husband of Stern's sister and his most troublesome client -- a "small-town boy made good, gone bad." To see him on the floor of the commodity exchange is to observe a force of nature: "He stepped into the tiered levels of the pits, shaking hands and tossing greetings like Frank Sinatra onstage, commanding the same reverence, or, in some quarters, subverted loathing." When he admits, "I've always wanted to do what other people wouldn't," Stern...
Combining studies with horsemanship was the idea of Sherman Thacher, a Yale law graduate who accompanied his ailing brother West and started the school in 1889. "There's something about the outside of a horse," he maintained, "that's good for the inside of a boy." Though it began as a school for boys who carried six-guns, read Kipling and mostly went on to Yale, Thacher has evolved into a modern, co-ed institution whose students enroll at colleges all over the country. Of this year's 62 seniors, 28 are headed for Ivy League schools...
...ethnic relations are remarkably smooth. "Everything's so homogenized here," admits alumnus Derrick Perry, 24. "It's like I didn't realize I was black until I went to Dartmouth." Sexism is probably the most divisive issue. Women, including faculty members, complain that the school remains encumbered with "old boy" history. Yet if Thacher continues to thrive, it is probably because of its throwback traditions. "If there is any single quality we look for," says admissions director Joy Sawyer-Mulligan, "it is a willingness to try something that is not vanilla...
...unnamed baby boy, born three months prematurely at Children's Hospital in Washington, is one of thousands of 2-lb. problems facing medicine. For more than a month he has been kept alive inside a plastic incubator. Miniature sunglasses are taped over his eyes, IV lines are cut into his neck, and tubes have been jammed up his nose and down his throat. Although $2,000 a day is being spent to keep this child alive, he will be permanently handicapped if he ever leaves the hospital. But it is unlikely that this infant will go home. "This baby...